Charlie Kaufman Quotes

I Think There Are Things That Aren't Represented In Movies That Are A Big Part Of Everyone's Life. We Romanticize Everything About People In Movies. One Of The Things I Don't Like In Movies Is That People Feel Alone With Their Bodily Functions In The Real World, As If People In The Movies Don't Do These Things.

I Graduated From College In 1980.

I Have A Lot Of Health Anxiety.

I Have A Tendency To Hire People Who Tend To Be Unattractive To The Studios. Maybe This Is A Bad Idea.

My Point Of View Comes More From The Literature I've Read And The Comedy Of The Era. When I Was A Kid, Coming Across National Lampoon Magazine, That Was A Big Thing. I Suddenly Felt Like There Were Other People That Felt The Way I Did, And There Was A Way Of Expressing And Communicating This Worldview.

I Like Titles That Are A Little Difficult, Because It's Kind Of Counterintuitive.

I Don't Write Genre Stuff In Any Form. I'm Not Interested In It. I Always Try To Do The Opposite Of That.

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.

I'm Trying To Tell A Story And Do It Truthfully.

As I'm Writing, I Start To See Connections, And Themes I Didn't See, And That Sparks Other Things. So Then I Go Back And Rewrite Things Or Alter Them. It's A Combination Of Intuition And A Lot Of Finessing. It Becomes A Combination Of The Rational And The Irrational.

I Try To Make Things Interesting And Thought-provoking.

There's Theater In Life, Obviously, And There's Life In Theater.