Charlie Kaufman Quotes

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

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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 want to create situations that give people something to think about.

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

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

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

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

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• I like actors – I used to be one.

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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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• 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 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 have a lot of health anxiety.

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• I graduated from college in 1980.

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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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