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I've had to deal, a lot, with my own sense of intimidation at meeting famous people - especially actors, but really any famous people.
— 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.
— Charlie Kaufman
There are things that aren't represented in movies that are a big part of everyone's life. This is a movie about health and about the body.
— Charlie Kaufman
I do throw out a lot of ideas, and I forget completely about them.
— Charlie Kaufman
I'm trying to tell a story and do it truthfully.
— Charlie Kaufman
I think dreams are metaphors. Everything you do in writing is metaphorical. So it seems like the same arena to me.
— Charlie Kaufman
I have a tendency to hire people who tend to be unattractive to the studios. Maybe this is a bad idea.
— Charlie Kaufman
I want to do my own thing, and I'm trying to get closer to realizing that as a filmmaker.
— Charlie Kaufman
You're dealing with the body, and you're dealing with bodily functions. We romanticize everything about people in movies.
— Charlie Kaufman
There are so many people who are making movies now who can't get any kind of distribution, so the market seems like it's flooded.
— Charlie Kaufman
I do like escapism. I like going to the movies on a Friday night and seeing something fun.
— Charlie Kaufman
I'm in my mind a lot. I live there.
— Charlie Kaufman
I don't subscribe to anything. I sit there and I try to think about what seems honest to me.
— Charlie Kaufman
She was nice. Nice is good.
— Charlie Kaufman
I try to make things interesting and thought-provoking.
— Charlie Kaufman
I often have a theme in mind when I'm starting. I know that I want everything to be in a world of, say, evolution, or guilt.
— Charlie Kaufman
I love working with actors. I love visual things. I always intended to be a writer who directs and a director who writes.
— Charlie Kaufman
There's theater in life, obviously, and there's life in theater.
— Charlie Kaufman
You are what you love, not what loves you.
— Charlie Kaufman
I didn't even know what a film director was. To me, Charlie Chaplin was a goofy clown, and John Ford - what? Never heard of him.
— Lloyd Kaufman
You and I share the same DNA.Is there anything more lonely than that? — Charlie Kaufman
I think I've had pretty good experiences for the most part with the people who have directed my screenplays.
— Charlie Kaufman
I really don't have any solutions and I don't like movies that do.
— Charlie Kaufman
CLEMENTINE: This is it, Joel. It's going to be gone soon.JOEL: I know.
CLEMENTINE: What do we do?
JOEL: Enjoy it. — Charlie Kaufman
Sometimes I don't like the books that I'm reading.
— Charlie Kaufman
I was trying to figure out what a memory feels like.
— Charlie Kaufman
I think if I've worked anything through with screenwriting it's that I'm not going to be able to work anything through.
— Charlie Kaufman
You've been a part of me forever. Don't you know that? I breathe your name in every exhalation.
— Charlie Kaufman
The only way to do something interesting is not care if you fail.
— Charlie Kaufman
CLAIREI used to be a baby!
CADAN
I'm sorry. — Charlie Kaufman
I just try to be honest, because I think that's part of my job description as a writer.
— Charlie Kaufman
Writing is a journey into the unknown.
— Charlie Kaufman
I think everything I do is based on my experience in the world in one way or another.
— Charlie Kaufman
I try to present something that is true so I don't further destroy the world with my contribution to it.
— Charlie Kaufman
I do have, at different times, a certain kind of self-consciousness in the world, an insecurity.
— Charlie Kaufman
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.
— Charlie Kaufman
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.
— Charlie Kaufman
What I came to understand is that change is not a choice, not for a species of plant, not for me. It happens, and you are different.
— Charlie Kaufman
I don't think the world objectively exists the way we think it exists. There's a constant sort of storytelling process.
— Charlie Kaufman
It's fun to improvise, but I still think it's better to have a great script, you know, like a Charlie Kaufman script.
— Sam Rockwell
Sand is overrated. It's just tiny little rocks.
— Charlie Kaufman
I have ideas written down some places, but usually I can't find them. I'm not very organized.
— Charlie Kaufman
Do not simplify. Do not worry about failure. Failure is a badge of honour. It means you risked failure.
— Charlie Kaufman
Why do I fall in love with every woman I see that shows me the least bit of attention?
— Charlie Kaufman
I'm not into extreme sports or something. I just live a quiet life.
— Charlie Kaufman
I think if something resonates, even if it's surreal, it's because it is relatable and I think that that's a core issue for me.
— Charlie Kaufman
I don't write genre stuff in any form. I'm not interested in it. I always try to do the opposite of that.
— Charlie Kaufman
I graduated from college in 1980.
— Charlie Kaufman
Meet me in Montauk...
— Charlie Kaufman
I wanted to deal with someone's idea of their relationship.
— Charlie Kaufman
My time on the set is the least of my involvement. Most of my time is in pre-production and post-production.
— Charlie Kaufman
The end is built into the beginning.
— Charlie Kaufman
I like actors - I used to be one.
— Charlie Kaufman
I have a lot of health anxiety.
— Charlie Kaufman
Clem: Hide me somewhere deeper, somewhere really buried.Joel: Where?
Clem: Hide me in your humiliation. — Charlie Kaufman
I want to create situations that give people something to think about.
— Charlie Kaufman
Seriously, I don't consider myself a writer. I don't think I have writing talent. But I will continue to do it.
— Charlie Kaufman
We are what we love, not what loves us.
— Charlie Kaufman
I feel like I want to keep moving toward idiosyncracy. Personal, personal, personal.
— Charlie Kaufman
If you ever got me, you wouldn't have a clue what to do with me.
— Charlie Kaufman
Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.
— Charlie Kaufman
I choose to write characters from the inside because I feel like that's the way I'm gonna get the most honest version of them.
— Charlie Kaufman
I don't think screenwriting is therapeutic. It's actually really, really hard for me. It's not an enjoyable process.
— Charlie Kaufman
I actually think I'm probably more interested in structure than most people who write screenplays, because I think about it.
— Charlie Kaufman
I don't think I've had a lonely moment in my life.
— Charlie Kaufman