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Everything is more complicated than you think. You only see a tenth of what is true.

Charlie Kaufman

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Charlie Kaufman
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: November 1
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Tenth
Complicated
True
Everything
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I do like escapism. I like going to the movies on a Friday night and seeing something fun.
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The way I write is very much without kind of a goal. I have something I'm interested in and then I decide I'm going to explore it. I don't know where the characters are going to go, I don't know what the movie is going to do or what the screenplay is going to do. For me, that's the way to keep it alive.
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Clementine: This is it, Joel. It's going to be gone soon. Joel: I know. Clementine: What do we do? Joel: Enjoy it.
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I think I've had pretty good experiences for the most part with the people who have directed my screenplays.
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Everything I've written is personal - it's the only way I know how to write.
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There really is only one ending to any story. Human life ends in death. Until then, it keeps going and gets complicated and there's loss. Everything involves loss every relationship ends in one way or another.
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Do not simplify. Do not worry about failure. Failure is a badge of honour. It means you risked failure.
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I try to present something that is true so I don't further destroy the world with my contribution to it.
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When I'm writing a script, before I can write dialogue or anything, I have two or three hundred pages of notes, which takes me a year. So, it's not like what happens next. I've got things that I'm thinking about but I don't settle on them. And if I try to write dialogue before then, I can't. It's just garbage.
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I feel like I want to keep moving toward idiosyncracy. Personal, personal, personal.
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Seriously, I don't consider myself a writer. I don't think I have writing talent. But I will continue to do it.
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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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I do a lot of things intuitively. I'm not often consciously aware of what I'm doing. It's like in a dream: There's something going on that's powerful but you don't know exactly why.
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I'm interested in trying to explore what I think is the truth at a given time in my life, and part of the process of being honest is - in my mind - talking about the idea that you're watching a movie.
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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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Sand is overrated. It's just tiny little rocks.
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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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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.
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I'm in my mind a lot. I live there.
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If you create something that is asking for people to respond as they're going to respond, you have to allow them to respond as they're going to respond. Some of the people are going to be uninterested and some people are going to be mad for some reason, which is their business. That's just the way the world is.
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