Charlie Kaufman Quotes

• 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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• I do throw out a lot of ideas, and I forget completely about them.

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  Tags in Forget, Ideas

• I graduated from college in 1980.

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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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  Tags in Different, Same, Personality

• I have a lot of health anxiety.

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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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  Tags in Bad, Idea

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

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  Tags in Solutions

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

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  Tags in Down, Organized

• I like titles that are a little difficult, because it’s kind of counterintuitive.

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  Tags in Little, Difficult, Kind

• 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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  Tags in Someone, Kind

• I like actors – I used to be one.

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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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  Tags in Angry, Bad

• I studied acting at Boston University. I was in the theater department there. Somewhere in there I decided that wasn’t what I was going to do and I went to the B.F.A. film program at N.Y.U.

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  Tags in Acting, Theater, University

• 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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  Tags in Surreal, Think

• I think I’ve had pretty good experiences for the most part with the people who have directed my screenplays.

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  Tags in Pretty, Directed

• I think of myself as a guy who tries to write screenplays and now has tried to direct one. Anything more than that is meaningless and it gets in the way of being a real human being.

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  Tags in Myself, Human, Real

• 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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  Tags in Anything, Think

• 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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  Tags in Nothing, Complete

• I try to make things interesting and thought-provoking.

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  Tags in Try, Interesting

• 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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  Tags in Try, Completion, Inception

Charlie Kaufman (64)

Birth:	19th November, 1958
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Film Director, Lyricist, Producer, Screenwriter

About

Charles Stuart "Charlie" Kaufman was born in New York City, New York. He is an American screenwriter, producer, film director, and lyricist. He wrote the critically acclaimed films Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. He won two BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplays, one BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and a Saturn Award for Best Writing. He worked as a writer for Ned and Stacey and The Dana Carvey Show.

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