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Category: Charlie Kaufman

3 December 2020 Charlie Kaufman

I’ve had to deal, a lot, with my own sense of intimidation at meeting famous people – especially actors, but really any famous people.

3 December 2020 Charlie Kaufman

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.

3 December 2020 Charlie Kaufman

I do like escapism. I like going to the movies on a Friday night and seeing something fun.

3 December 2020 Charlie Kaufman

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?

3 December 2020 Charlie Kaufman

There’s no way to approach anything in an objective way. We’re completely subjective our view of the world is completely controlled by who we are as human beings, as men or women, by our age, our history, our profession, by the state of the world.

3 December 2020 Charlie Kaufman

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.

3 December 2020 Charlie Kaufman

I’ve kind of come to the conclusion that what passes for realism in movies has nothing to do with reality and that my stuff is more realistic than that.

3 December 2020 Charlie Kaufman

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.

3 December 2020 Charlie Kaufman

I’m not into extreme sports or something. I just live a quiet life.

3 December 2020 Charlie Kaufman

I really don’t have any solutions and I don’t like movies that do.

3 December 2020 Charlie Kaufman

I think you just assume that your memory is just sort of a video playback of your experience, but it’s nothing like that at all. It’s a complete refabrication of an event and a lot of it is made up, because you’re filling in spaces.

3 December 2020 Charlie Kaufman

I think generally I’m kind of interested in subjective experience, what goes on inside someone’s head, that being all they really know of the world.

3 December 2020 Charlie Kaufman

I have a lot of health anxiety.

3 December 2020 Charlie Kaufman

I wanted to deal with someone’s idea of their relationship.

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