Charlie Kaufman Quotes

I don't think screenwriting is therapeutic. It's actually really, really hard for me. It's not an enjoyable process.

Charlie Kaufman

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• I want to play interesting women.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Women
  • Want
  • Interesting

• News has become entertainment. Once that happens, a whole series of horrific events start to happen, whether it's the lack of dissemination of something that can inform you or something that actually negatively impacts society.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Society
  • Start
  • News

• Never cry over spilt milk, because it may have been poisoned.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • May
  • Cry
  • Milk

• I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.

  

  Randy Travis
  • Music
  • Business
  • Nature

• Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • You
  • Better
  • Writer

• I was always quite good with accents - I always had quite a good ear - so from the age of about 13, I used to do a lot of voiceover and dubbing for foreign films.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Good
  • Age
  • Always

• Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Circle
  • Round
  • Praised

• No nation has embraced Total Quality Management, e-commerce and e-government with greater enthusiasm than Dubai. Such innovations have given Dubai a competitive edge and an accelerated growth rate that few could match.

  

  Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
  • Quality
  • Growth
  • Management

• You can tell when someone is driven by labels. If something is couture, they think it's important and wear it and sometimes make a terrible fashion mistake. People are shocked that I know so little about designers.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • People
  • Important
  • Fashion

• I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Trying
  • Why
  • Process

• When I'm depressed, I definitely comfort eat, but I also eat when I'm happy. The only time I don't eat is if I am terribly nervous.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Happy
  • Nervous
  • Eat

• We get a lot of raps as Americans for being small-minded, but in fact, when you really drill down to the core of the culture, there's an enormous amount of compassion and forgiveness and support.

  

  Bartlett Sher
  • Culture
  • Small
  • Support

• We allowed ourselves to become particularly interested in research into the appearance of intermediate products of sugar decomposition during cell-free fermentation.

  

  Eduard Buchner
  • Free
  • Research
  • Appearance

• It's cool having a little bit of money to do your thing.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Money
  • Cool
  • Little

• Rather than hearing from the city council president, you'd hear from sources all across the country.

  

  Jack Kelley
  • Country
  • You
  • City

• We're still in a recession. We're not gonna be out of it for a while, but we will get out.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Will
  • Still
  • Recession

• I put castor oil in my eyebrows. And I also tint my eyebrows when I get them cleaned up. That way, I don't have to be constantly filling them in, because I'm lazy.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Up
  • Way
  • Lazy

• In working with top leaders and thought philosophers of our time, I will tell you that among their secrets of success is a regular practice of acknowledging and appreciating what they have. It can offer an oracle into the future because it not only tells you where you are, but it also helps clarify where you want to go in life.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Life
  • Time
  • Future

• I am not a genius, I am just curious. I ask many questions, and when the answer is simple, then God is answering.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • God
  • Genius
  • Questions

• If you look at the content of songs people write, it's usually about the things they know best.

  

  Nicholas James Bates Duran Duran
  • People
  • Writing
  • Song

• Mission Control will be perfect. When you leave this meeting today you will go to your office and the first thing you will do there is to write "Tough and Competent" on your blackboards. It will never be erased. Each day when you enter the room these words will remind you of the price paid by Grissom, White, and Chaffee. These words are the price of admission to the ranks of Mission Control.

  

  Gene Kranz
  • Writing
  • Today
  • Perfect

• [The] Hopi earth does contain my roots and I am, indeed, from that land. Because the roots are there, I will find them. But when I find them, [my father] said, I must rebuild myself as a Hopi. I am not merely a conduit, but a participant. I am not a victim, but a woman.

  

  Wendy Rose
  • Earth
  • Said
  • Victim

• Facts have proved that prosperity at the expense of the environment is only delaying disaster. We cannot passively protect our environment by simply stopping economic development.

  

  Zhou Shengxian
  • Environment
  • Economic
  • Protect

• I don't think screenwriting is therapeutic. It's actually really, really hard for me. It's not an enjoyable process.

  

  Charlie Kaufman