Charlie Kaufman Quotes
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When I'm writing, I'm trying to immerse myself in the chaos of an emotional experience, rather than separate myself from it and look back at it from a distance with clarity and tell it as a story. Because that's how life is lived, you know?
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As a writer, or as a filmmaker, you have to present yourself, and part of what yourself is is what you're interested in, or what you think is funny, or what you think is sad, or what you think is horrible.
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I don't subscribe to anything. I sit there and I try to think about what seems honest to me.
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I'm trying to tell a story and do it truthfully.
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In a lot of movies, especially big studio ones, they're not constructed in any other way than to get people to like them and then tell their friends. It's a product.
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I do have some theatrical background. I've written plays and seen plays and read plays. But I also read novels. One thing I don't read is screenplays.
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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.
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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.
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I graduated from college in 1980.
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I studied acting at Boston University. I was in the theater department there. Somewhere in there I decided that wasn't what I was going to do and I went to the B.F.A. film program at N.Y.U.
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I do have, at different times, a certain kind of self-consciousness in the world, an insecurity.
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There's theater in life, obviously, and there's life in theater.
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I want to try it to see what it's like and see what my stuff looks like when I take it from inception to completion.
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I can talk endlessly about characters, or why someone did this or that, and what that dynamic and interaction is. I really love it, and I think that actors really respond positively to the fact that I like to talk about that stuff, because I'm not sure that all directors do.