I want to create situations that give people something to think about.
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The way I write is very much without kind of a goal. I have something I'm interested in and then I decide I'm going to explore it. I don't know where the characters are going to go, I don't know what the movie is going to do or what the screenplay is going to do. For me, that's the way to keep it alive.
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I think that people have expectations of themselves and other people that are based on these fictions that are presented to them as the way human life and relationships could be, in some sort of weird, ideal world, but they never are. So you’re constantly being shown this garbage and you can’t get there.
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Birth: | 19th November, 1958 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Film Director, Lyricist, Producer, Screenwriter |
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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