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I'm old enough, by a long shot, to remember going to the library and spending days researching. If I was looking for a line from a poem or something else I needed, that would be the trip I would have to take.
Charlie Kaufman
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Charlie Kaufman
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: November 1
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I think there are things that aren't represented in movies that are a big part of everyone's life. We romanticize everything about people in movies. One of the things I don't like in movies is that people feel alone with their bodily functions in the real world, as if people in the movies don't do these things.
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If you create something that is asking for people to respond as they're going to respond, you have to allow them to respond as they're going to respond. Some of the people are going to be uninterested and some people are going to be mad for some reason, which is their business. That's just the way the world is.
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I like titles that are a little difficult, because it's kind of counterintuitive.
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The only honest and generous thing for me to do is to give people myself. That's all I've got as an artist, so I want to do that in an unflinching way.
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I'm interested in trying to explore what I think is the truth at a given time in my life, and part of the process of being honest is - in my mind - talking about the idea that you're watching a movie.
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I want to create situations that give people something to think about.
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I have a tendency to hire people who tend to be unattractive to the studios. Maybe this is a bad idea.
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I really don't have any solutions and I don't like movies that do.
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I think I've had pretty good experiences for the most part with the people who have directed my screenplays.
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The way I write is very much without kind of a goal. I have something I'm interested in and then I decide I'm going to explore it. I don't know where the characters are going to go, I don't know what the movie is going to do or what the screenplay is going to do. For me, that's the way to keep it alive.
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I graduated from college in 1980.
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I have a personality that tends to be somewhat compulsive, and I do tend to think in a circular way. I dwell on the same things over and over and I try to figure out different ways of looking at the same issue.
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Seriously, I don't consider myself a writer. I don't think I have writing talent. But I will continue to do it.
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I try to present something that is true so I don't further destroy the world with my contribution to it.
Charlie Kaufman
I actually think I'm probably more interested in structure than most people who write screenplays, because I think about it.
Charlie Kaufman
Before you start production, you have characters you have created without actors in mind, then all of a sudden you've got actors. They bring an enormous amount in creating these characters, and creating the dynamics between the characters that you've written.
Charlie Kaufman
I try to make things interesting and thought-provoking.
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Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.
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Every day of your life, you have information that enters your head, and that information informs your understanding of things, or shifts it, or changes it, or deepens it, or confuses you. Every day, every moment of every day - it's like this thing that happens.
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I think if I've worked anything through with screenwriting it's that I'm not going to be able to work anything through.
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