Charlie Kaufman Quotes

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.

Charlie Kaufman

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• Here's the thing: I left Ion Storm and Eidos in the spring of 2004 frankly because I felt out of place at that company.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Spring
  • Company
  • Storm

• There are a tremendous amount of environmental issues that are on the table.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Issues
  • Environmental
  • Table

• I'm not a movie star like other actors in the way that I need to walk with a bodyguard.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Movie
  • Star
  • Need

• Hiking is something that I really, really like to do. It's distracting, you're in nature, and you get a nice workout that way. I would tell everyone to hike as much as they can - you just feel so much better when you get outdoors. I'm also into yoga.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Nature
  • Nice
  • Better

• Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Music
  • Game
  • Sports

• I get criticized for taking roles in films like 'Ghost Rider 2', but if you look at my resume, dude, I've mixed it up as much as I can.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Up
  • Look
  • Ghost

• Look at this, scabs and cuts all over me, I get these every night, every game. They can't tell you that you're not at risk, and you can't tell me there's one guy in the N.B.A. who hasn't thought about it.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Guy
  • Game
  • Night

• Movement should be a counter, whether in action scenes or dialogue or whatever. It counters where your eye is going. This style thing, for me it's all fitted to the action, to the script, to the characters.

  

  Samuel Fuller
  • Action
  • Style
  • Eye

• Virat Kohli has so far shown that he has more ability and talent than anybody else, and if he can play till 32 or 34 with same fitness and without injuries, he will come to a point where not even Vivian Richards neither Sachin Tendulkar had such a record.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Talent
  • Same
  • Fitness

• I believe that pop culture is just, like, so ready for 'Watchmen.' We tried so hard to ride that wave between satire and reality, and all the things that make you still care about the character, but you don't miss the commentary about them.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Believe
  • Character
  • Reality

• Let's be realistic, how many people are buying a $2,000 skirt? I love to design things that people can actually buy. I'm staggered by what a boot costs today.

  

  Vera Wang
  • People
  • Today
  • Things

• Thanks to everyone who's encouraged and supported my work over the years.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Work
  • Thanks
  • Everyone

• A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down her sceptre until she is placed on the bier.

  

  Edith Evans
  • Work
  • She
  • Artist

• Ryan Giggs will go down as the most successful British footballer of all time and I cannot see anyone ever overtaking him. He's on the brink of his 13th league title, after all.

  

  Gary Neville
  • Time
  • Successful
  • Down

• These seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words.

  

  Felix Mendelssohn
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Words

• I want to play someone really dark, like a real bad guy on screen. But I am sure I won't be able to do so because my fans will not let me do it. They are aggressive. My image is such that no one will allow me to do a negative character.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • Character
  • Play
  • Dark

• In Japan, I am famous in certain special circles - mainly as someone who is trying to break down and enlighten the conventions of Japanese art.

  

  Takashi Murakami
  • Art
  • Famous
  • Japan

• I trade musical favours like cattle. I can't remember the last time I did a remix for actual money. For me, I try and get a good swap.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • Time
  • Good
  • Money

• I honestly believe there are good things happening in this world, and I'll spend most of my time trying to find them and bring them to light.

  

  Jesse L. Martin
  • Time
  • World
  • Good

• When you're used to seeing someone being coldly efficient on court and suddenly they go on stage and into your world - it's fascinating.

  

  Adrian Smith Iron Maiden
  • World

• I went to college at University of South Carolina and dropped out of chemistry, and to fill a class, the only spot they had left was a theater class. It was so annoying, but I took it and then I thought it was the greatest thing; the most socially creative. I dropped out of school immediately and moved to New York to start acting. I was 19.

  

  Jonny Weston
  • School
  • College
  • Annoying

• Whether at Naishapur or Babylon, Whether the Cup with sweet or bitter run, The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Life
  • Sweet
  • Wine

• I love writing for young people. It's the literature that was most important to me, the stories that shaped me and informed my own journey as a writer.

  

  Jacqueline Woodson
  • People
  • Important
  • Writing

• 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.

  

  Charlie Kaufman