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

Charlie Kaufman

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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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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 I've had pretty good experiences for the most part with the people who have directed my screenplays.
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I'm not into extreme sports or something. I just live a quiet life.
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You spend most of your time as a director trying to move forward with the movie. It happens on a daily basis, if not more than once a day, that you are struggling with budgetary constraints. Whereas when you're writing, the limitation that you have is your imagination. So it's decidedly non-pragmatic.
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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'm not a celebrity. I'm intentionally and defiantly not a celebrity. I don't have any interest in it. I don't have any talent for it. I keep my personal life out of my public life as cleanly as I can.
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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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When I found myself in that situation - that actors are like children, I tried to be successful. And when it worked and I figured out how to communicate that things were good - or at least okay - then I felt pleased.
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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.
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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 you just assume that your memory is just sort of a video playback of your experience, but it's nothing like that at all. It's a complete refabrication of an event and a lot of it is made up, because you're filling in spaces.
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The way I work is not the way that you work, and the whole point of any creative act is that. What I have to offer is me, what you have to offer is you, and if you offer yourself with authenticity and generosity I will be moved.
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Writing is a journey into the unknown.
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I'm Jewish, and my family is Jewish. I was very interested in Woody Allen when I was growing up, but I don't think of myself as a Jewish writer. I'm more from suburbia, American suburbia. I'm more from the '70s than I am from Judaism.
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I'm not working on anything. I was trying to write something new . . . I guess the goal for me now, at least at this point, is to try to direct again.
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We're all one thing, like cells in a body. 'Cept we can't see the body. The way fish can't see the ocean. And so we envy each other. Hurt each other. Hate each other. How silly is that? A heart cell hating a lung cell.
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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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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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Everything I've written is personal - it's the only way I know how to write.
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Everything is more complicated than you think. You only see a tenth of what is true.
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