Charlie Kaufman Quotes

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Charlie Kaufman

Profession : Screenwriter

Birth : November 19, 1958

As a writer, or as a filmmaker, you have to present yourself, and part of what yourself is is what you're interested in, or what you think is funny, or what you think is sad, or what you think is horrible.

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There's theater in life, obviously, and there's life in theater.

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Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.

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I want to try it to see what it's like and see what my stuff looks like when I take it from inception to completion.

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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 feel like I want to keep moving toward idiosyncracy. Personal, personal, personal.

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Everything I've written is personal - it's the only way I know how to write.

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I'm in my mind a lot. I live there.

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I hate a movie that will end by telling you that the first thing you should do is learn to love yourself. That is so insulting and condescending, and so meaningless. My characters don't learn to love each other or themselves.

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I'm not into extreme sports or something. I just live a quiet life.

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Sometimes I don't like the books that I'm reading.

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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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I was trying to figure out what a memory feels like.

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I have ideas written down some places, but usually I can't find them. I'm not very organized.

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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.

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I do have, at different times, a certain kind of self-consciousness in the world, an insecurity.

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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 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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I've had to deal, a lot, with my own sense of intimidation at meeting famous people - especially actors, but really any famous people.

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I wanted to deal with someone's idea of their relationship.

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