Charlie Kaufman Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
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At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
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I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.
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If someone had protected the HTML language for making Web pages, then we wouldn't have the World Wide Web.
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I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.
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I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees and first out when there's trouble.
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They show that roughly two-thirds of a group of neurotic patients will recover or improve to a marked extent within about two years of the onset of their illness, whether they are treated by means of psychotherapy or not.
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I don't want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do.
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Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.
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I wasn't that hard. I wasn't that tough. I wasn't that funny – I looked like me.
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Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
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I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.
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A lot of people have a sense-of-entitlement mentality that somebody else ought to do these things for them. People are mad at the government for not getting jobs for them. I don't understand why it's the government's responsibility.
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During the season especially, we take a lot of swings, we play a lot of games, we swing a lot in games, batting practice, all that, so to maintain your shoulder the strongest is one of the key points that we focused on in the offseason.
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Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
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Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!
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People in power, they're so used to people kind of playing up to them.
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If everything is the same, nothing is special.
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It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had reached past him. Why couldn't they see it? It still puzzles me.
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The storyline of a fantasy novel is filled with such a sense of enchantment, beauty and strangeness; it allows the writer to explore the big ontological questions of life that would sound like a sermon in a social realist novel.
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Actually when I gave out the script, I gave it with a CD of all the music I wanted to put in the movie, and again, we never thought we'd get all that music.
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I have instinctually thought I could do things in my life, and I followed that up by sometimes putting everything I have at risk - my money, my house - to make a movie.
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To have one's own story told by a third party who doesn't know that the character in question is himself the hero of the story being told, that's a technical refinement.
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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.
