Charlie Kaufman quotes - page 2

I really don't have any solutions and I don't like movies that do. (Charlie Kaufman)

If you create something that is asking for people to respond as they're going to respond, you have to allow them to respond as they're going to respond. Some of the people are going to be uninterested and some people are going to be mad for some reason, which is their business. That's just the way the world is.

Charlie Kaufman

So when I write characters and situations and relationships, I try to sort of utilize what I know about the world, limited as it is, and what I hear from my friends and see with my relatives.

Charlie Kaufman

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

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

Charlie Kaufman

We try to organize the world, which isn't organized the way our brains want to organize it. We tell stories about the people in our lives, we project ideas onto them. We project relationships with people, we make our lives into stories. I don't think we can avoid doing that.

Charlie Kaufman

My time on the set is the least of my involvement. Most of my time is in pre-production and post-production.

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

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As a kid, I had a background in theater.

Charlie Kaufman

I can talk endlessly about characters, or why someone did this or that, and what that dynamic and interaction is. I really love it, and I think that actors really respond positively to the fact that I like to talk about that stuff, because I'm not sure that all directors do.

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I'm not a celebrity. I'm intentionally and defiantly not a celebrity. I don't have any interest in it. I don't have any talent for it. I keep my personal life out of my public life as cleanly as I can. (Charlie Kaufman)

I've kind of come to the conclusion that what passes for realism in movies has nothing to do with reality and that my stuff is more realistic than that.

Charlie Kaufman

I'm old enough, by a long shot, to remember going to the library and spending days researching. If I was looking for a line from a poem or something else I needed, that would be the trip I would have to take.

Charlie Kaufman

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

Charlie Kaufman

I don't write genre stuff in any form. I'm not interested in it. I always try to do the opposite of that.

Charlie Kaufman

I like actors - I used to be one.

Charlie Kaufman

I don't subscribe to anything. I sit there and I try to think about what seems honest to me.

Charlie Kaufman

I graduated from college in 1980.

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I have a lot of health anxiety.

Charlie Kaufman

I have a tendency to hire people who tend to be unattractive to the studios. Maybe this is a bad idea. (Charlie Kaufman)

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.

Charlie Kaufman

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

Charlie Kaufman

I actually think I'm probably more interested in structure than most people who write screenplays, because I think about it.

Charlie Kaufman

I try to make things interesting and thought-provoking.

Charlie Kaufman

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Charlie Kaufman

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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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