Charlie Kaufman Quotes
I think of myself as a guy who tries to write screenplays and now has tried to direct one. Anything more than that is meaningless and it gets in the way of being a real human being.
Quotes to Explore
-
Back in the mid '90s, I went to a film festival, and they were airing 'Central Park West' at the same time as this cute little romantic comedy movie called 'French Exit,' and I got to go from one theater where I was goofy, falling over myself, to this kind of evil vixen kind of character.
-
When you can score three goals without the most prolific scorer in the world, you know you have a lot of depth, and it gives you confidence.
-
I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.
-
My goal is to make people feel passionately, if it's negative or positive, I did my job.
-
Jesus Christ was a patriot! His country was the world. His laws were the eternal principles of liberty, and his followers, in every age, have been the chosen champions of freedom!
-
A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
-
It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.
-
When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
-
To me, success is choice and opportunity.
-
Roddenberry had created quite a complex and at times mysterious character. Guarded, cautious, careful in showing his feelings in expressing his ideas about many things - I found that very interesting.
-
Fashion has a long interest in collaborative situations.
-
Girls shouldn't drink because their bodies are not made for drinking and smoking.
-
The city has to do what any citizen or family does, when you have a dream. You tighten your belt. You sacrifice some luxuries. Above all, you don't waste a dime.
-
The women I gravitate to are the ones who defy convention and reinvent themselves - hence, they reinvent the world around them.
-
Although I come from a family who are Muslim - my mother is Egyptian, my father is Palestinian - my mother only puts a veil on her head when she has a bad hair day.
-
I'm not that moody. I don't have big ups and downs.
-
If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
-
There are not many persons who know what wonders are opened to them in the stories and visions of their youth; for when as children we listen and dream, we think but half-formed thoughts, and when as men we try to remember, we are dulled and prosaic with the poison of life.
-
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
-
You want to be challenged, so you feel like you want to get up and wrestle with the character or enjoy the character - especially with a TV show, because you know you could be doing it for a long time, so you want to make sure it's something you really enjoy.
-
One of the nice things about being in a band is that you depend on each other for ideas, so it's not all up to me to do everything myself. There's always that fear that you'll run out of stuff. The most difficult part for me is writing lyrics, and that starts to get difficult after you've written, like, 120 songs.
-
I don't think a party can aspire to be the majority party if it's the old white guy party.
-
I am attracted to characters who are in worlds where they don't belong and who have great ambitions that they imagine will somehow reconcile themselves with the world and make things right.
-
I think of myself as a guy who tries to write screenplays and now has tried to direct one. Anything more than that is meaningless and it gets in the way of being a real human being.
