Charlie Kaufman Quotes
Directing is a more pragmatic experience, where you have to deal with the restrictions of time and money that force you to make certain decisions you don't have to make when you're writing.
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world.
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I'm not convinced about marriage. Divorce is so easy, and that fact that gay people are not allowed to marry takes much of the meaning out of it. Committing yourself to one person is sacred.
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Clearly I am a very strong, top-of-the-line, always-rising-to-it personage.
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Eighteenth-century matrons would have never have dreamed of appointing a redhaired wet nurse for their precious offspring - redheads passed on their horrible characters through their milk.
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How do you create chemistry? If only I knew that! Some people say it's a natural thing that you have with someone, and maybe it is to do with that, but I think you can work on it.
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I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.
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I've said some things about other religions that I regret now. I think they were incorrect.
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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.
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I have been, and will remain, outspoken in my insistence that Israel has a right to live in peace and security.
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Years ago, I carved out an identity, and it has always been about having a voice to tell people about stuff I love.
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I want to be different and have a good story. If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.
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I always wanted to be the person to whom people looked forward to give opportunities. As opposed to always being the person who wants to work with others and who is always the backup: where it's like, 'If nothing works out then OK, let's get this person.'
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In a multi-racial society, trust, understanding and tolerance are the cornerstones of peace and order.
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One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.
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I love things on the decline because that's really the natural progression of our lives. We're born, we're feisty for the first couple of years, and then the inevitable decline begins.
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It's an odd mix, the life of a playwright.
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In 2010, I was doing pretty well. I was going to go to graduate school.
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I used to live in a gap jumper, tracksuit bottoms and a fake flower in my hair. Shocking.
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Texas is a great place to be rich and a terrible place to be poor. It's got the highest percentage of people without health insurance in the country. If you get injured on the job, good luck getting workers' comp. And God help you if you're poor and mentally ill.
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I want to do a little bit of everything and really just experience life.
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Writing is a labor of love and also an act of defiance, a way to light a candle in a gale wind.
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On Sundays, I like to plan how I want to exit the week and what are the key things I need to get done that week. I list them, and then I do check-ins on them each morning.
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Directing is a more pragmatic experience, where you have to deal with the restrictions of time and money that force you to make certain decisions you don't have to make when you're writing.
