Charlie Kaufman quotes

Charlie Kaufman is an American screenwriter, director, and producer noted for his inventive and unconventional storytelling. His films, such as "Being John Malkovich" and "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," explore themes of identity, memory, and reality. He is regarded as one of the most original voices in contemporary cinema. Here are 70 of his quotes:

You are what you love, not what loves you. (Charlie Kaufman)
Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating. View quote
Charlie Kaufman
Sand is overrated. It's just tiny little rocks. View quote
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Clementine: This is it, Joel. It's going to be gone soon. Joel: I know. Clementine: What do we do? Joel: Enjoy it. View quote
Charlie Kaufman
There are nearly thirteen million people in the world. None of those people is an extra. They're all the leads of their own stories. They have to be given their due. View quote
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Writing is a journey into the unknown. View quote
Charlie Kaufman
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. View quote
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When I'm writing, I'm trying to immerse myself in the chaos of an emotional experience, rather than separate myself from it and look back at it from a distance with clarity and tell it as a story. Because that's how life is lived, you know? View quote
Charlie Kaufman
Everything is more complicated than you think. You only see a tenth of what is true. View quote
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We're all one thing, like cells in a body. 'Cept we can't see the body. The way fish can't see the ocean. And so we envy each other. Hurt each other. Hate each other. How silly is that? A heart cell hating a lung cell. View quote
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I feel like I want to keep moving toward idiosyncracy. Personal, personal, personal. (Charlie Kaufman)
There are too many ideas and things and people. Too many directions to go. I was starting to believe the reason it matters to care passionately about something, is that it whittles the world down to a more manageable size. View quote
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Why do I fall in love with every woman I see that shows me the least bit of attention? View quote
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Meet me in Montauk... View quote
Charlie Kaufman
There really is only one ending to any story. Human life ends in death. Until then, it keeps going and gets complicated and there's loss. Everything involves loss; every relationship ends in one way or another. View quote
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You and I share the same DNA. Is there anything more lonely than that? View quote
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If you ever got me, you wouldn't have a clue what to do with me. View quote
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I do have some theatrical background. I've written plays and seen plays and read plays. But I also read novels. One thing I don't read is screenplays. View quote
Charlie Kaufman
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. View quote
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I'm in my mind a lot. I live there. View quote
Charlie Kaufman
It occurred to me that every work of art is a synecdoche, there's no way around it. Every creative work that someone does can only represent an aspect of the whole of something. I can't think of an exception to that. (Charlie Kaufman)
There's no way to approach anything in an objective way. We're completely subjective; our view of the world is completely controlled by who we are as human beings, as men or women, by our age, our history, our profession, by the state of the world. View quote
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I do have, at different times, a certain kind of self-consciousness in the world, an insecurity. View quote
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I want to create situations that give people something to think about. View quote
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I do like escapism. I like going to the movies on a Friday night and seeing something fun. View quote
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Charlie Kaufman

Charlie Kaufman - Image
Photo: anna Hanks from Austin, Texas, USA, CC BY 2.0
Occupation: American Screenwriter
Born: November 19, 1958
Quotes count: 70

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