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I have a background in theater, so I have experience with actors. I like actors - I used to be one.

Charlie Kaufman

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Charlie Kaufman
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: November 1
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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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When you approach middle age, lots of stuff happens. Your body is aging, you're watching people around you get sick, you're watching people die, your mortality becomes very present at that point in your life.
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I don't write genre stuff in any form. I'm not interested in it. I always try to do the opposite of that.
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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'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 like titles that are a little difficult, because it's kind of counterintuitive.
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I want to create situations that give people something to think about.
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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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You and I share the same DNA. Is there anything more lonely than that?
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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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I do like escapism. I like going to the movies on a Friday night and seeing something fun.
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Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.
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I try when I'm writing to leave enough space for people to have their own interpretation, and not to direct it toward one conclusion. Then the audience would not be reacting, because they are being preached to or lectured at. I don't have that much to say that I think people should listen to me.
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You are what you love. Not what loves you.
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I tend to not only read reviews, but also every little stupid thing online. It's a very bad idea, and there's a lot of angry people in the world. And it's weird to absorb all that weirdness.
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Everything is more complicated than you think. You only see a tenth of what is true.
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I can talk endlessly about characters, or why someone did this or that, and what that dynamic and interaction is. I really love it, and I think that actors really respond positively to the fact that I like to talk about that stuff, because I'm not sure that all directors do.
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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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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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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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