Charlie Kaufman Quotes
I have a tendency to hire people who tend to be unattractive to the studios. Maybe this is a bad idea.
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I would love it if people could look at chubby folks with all of our curves, bumps and ridges and just say 'She's beautiful' just like that. You don't have to get on a treadmill as long as your blood pressure is under control and you eat healthy, God bless.
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'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.
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If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.
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I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.
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All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.
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I'm such a big TLC fan, so I love singing 'Waterfalls' in the shower.
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Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?
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Authenticity means erasing the gap between what you firmly believe inside and what you reveal to the outside world.
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I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
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The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to add to it unless you have a damn good reason.
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To make theater out of real life, you need to catch dialogue when it happens.
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Playing further up the pitch, you have more opportunities to score and provide assists, and it's something I liked right from the start.
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When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.
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I will do as I usually do. Tomorrow is going to be a day like any other day.
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I was never much of a one to win prizes... and certainly never placed too much value on their acquisition.
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'Kiss Land' is the story after 'Trilogy'; it's pretty much the second chapter of my life. The narrative takes place after my first flight; it's very foreign, very Asian-inspired. When people ask me, 'Why Japan?' I simply tell them it's the furthest I've ever been from home. It really is a different planet.
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Stand-up comedians say that anyone in the audience can be funny, but people paid to see us because we're just a little bit funnier. In the same way, I think anybody can play music - in fact, I think everyone has music in them, but some of us can do it a little better.
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It is a fiction to imagine that the haphazard paper chits of old are more private than the modern digital alternative. Paper records have always presented a security risk.
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I stay around for two or three hours after every show signing and taking pictures with everybody, and people come up and say hi and they say, "I didn't know what to expect but it was so different to what I imagined, it was so cool". I want to believe they're not lying. You know so, some people don't get it, some people do.
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I have a tendency to hire people who tend to be unattractive to the studios. Maybe this is a bad idea.
