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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.
Charlie Kaufman
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Charlie Kaufman
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: November 1
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You're dealing with the body, and you're dealing with bodily functions. We romanticize everything about people in movies.
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You are what you love. Not what loves you.
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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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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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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 like titles that are a little difficult, because it's kind of counterintuitive.
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I'm in my mind a lot. I live there.
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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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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 actually think I'm probably more interested in structure than most people who write screenplays, because I think about it.
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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 try to make things interesting and thought-provoking.
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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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