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I really don't have any solutions and I don't like movies that do.

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Charlie Kaufman
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: November 1
Film Director
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New York City
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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 think generally I'm kind of interested in subjective experience, what goes on inside someone's head, that being all they really know of the world.
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I think everything I do is based on my experience in the world in one way or another.
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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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I do throw out a lot of ideas, and I forget completely about them.
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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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Story ideas, but it's also musing on stuff that I'm thinking about. This leads me to this and this leads me to this. They're kind of random and haphazard. Often I can't find anything. Somehow, by doing that, even though I don't necessarily refer to them in a specific way, I have some sort of architecture in my head.
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Do not simplify. Do not worry about failure. Failure is a badge of honour. It means you risked failure.
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There really is only one ending to any story. Human life ends in death. Until then, it keeps going and gets complicated and there's loss. Everything involves loss every relationship ends in one way or another.
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Writing is a journey into the unknown.
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I'm not into extreme sports or something. I just live a quiet life.
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We try to organize the world, which isn't organized the way our brains want to organize it. We tell stories about the people in our lives, we project ideas onto them. We project relationships with people, we make our lives into stories. I don't think we can avoid doing that.
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I think if something resonates, even if it's surreal, it's because it is relatable and I think that that's a core issue for me.
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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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Yeah, once we decided to use that replacement animation, and the seams are a function of that animation, and other movies paint those out, we decided we wanted to keep the presence of the animation and the type of animation that it was rather than make it look polished. It created a kind of vulnerability, I think.
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My time on the set is the least of my involvement. Most of my time is in pre-production and post-production.
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I think that people create the world that they live in. Your existence is very subjective, and you tell stories and organize the world outside of you into these stories to help you understand it.
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I often have a theme in mind when I'm starting. I know that I want everything to be in a world of, say, evolution, or guilt.
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I want to do my own thing, and I'm trying to get closer to realizing that as a filmmaker.
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There are nearly thirteen million people in the world. None of those people is an extra. They're all the leads of their own stories. They have to be given their due.
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