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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I'm trying to tell a story and do it truthfully.
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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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My time on the set is the least of my involvement. Most of my time is in pre-production and post-production.
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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 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 don't subscribe to anything. I sit there and I try to think about what seems honest to me.
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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 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 graduated from college in 1980.
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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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There's theater in life, obviously, and there's life in theater.
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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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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.