Quotes by Charlie Kaufman

Charlie Kaufman

And also the idea of not making it apparent that it’s different from the rest of the film, even though there are visual differences, the audience is supposed to think that they are with him when he wakes up in the morning.

Ideas

Morning

Thinking

And then to see the whole movie, you’re pretty much waiting until the end of production. And the major lifting in terms of editing and all that stuff is done before you shoot the movie. That’s an unusual way to work.

Done

Editing

Waiting

As a kid, I had a background in theater.

Backgrounds

Kids

Theater

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.

Funny

Horrible

Thinking

Before you start production, you have characters you have created without actors in mind, then all of a sudden you’ve got actors. They bring an enormous amount in creating these characters, and creating the dynamics between the characters that you’ve written.

Character

Creating

Mind

David Lynch is very important to me, and he does dreamlike movies, but my dreams are not like David Lynch’s dreams. I have no interest in copying anybody’s work. It would never occur to me to want this to look like someone else’s thing.

Copying

Dream

Important

Everything I’ve written is personal – it’s the only way I know how to write.

Know How

Way

Writing

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

Complicated

Thinking

From my vantage point in writing a story, I can’t and don’t and have no interest in thinking about the level of sophistication of the audience. I can only think about what interests me, and maybe what I would want to see if I were watching the movie. To me, that’s the key to writing something that’s not pandering.

Keys

Thinking

Writing

I actually think I’m probably more interested in structure than most people who write screenplays, because I think about it.

People

Thinking

Writing

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Anxiety

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Artist

Asking

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Bats

Believe

Bigs

Birthday

Body

Boston

Break

Care

Character

Children

Cleanliness

Clue

College

Compassion

Complicated

Copying

Creating

Creative

Different

Directors

Distribution

Done

Dream

Dying

Editing

Feelings

Figure Skating

Film

Focus

Forget

Funny

Generosity

Giving

Goal

Goes On

Hate

Horrible

Hurt

Ideas

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Quotes by Charlie Kaufman

Charlie Kaufman

And also the idea of not making it apparent that it’s different from the rest of the film, even though there are visual differences, the audience is supposed to think that they are with him when he wakes up in the morning.

And then to see the whole movie, you’re pretty much waiting until the end of production. And the major lifting in terms of editing and all that stuff is done before you shoot the movie. That’s an unusual way to work.

As a kid, I had a background in theater.

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.

Before you start production, you have characters you have created without actors in mind, then all of a sudden you’ve got actors. They bring an enormous amount in creating these characters, and creating the dynamics between the characters that you’ve written.

David Lynch is very important to me, and he does dreamlike movies, but my dreams are not like David Lynch’s dreams. I have no interest in copying anybody’s work. It would never occur to me to want this to look like someone else’s thing.

Everything I’ve written is personal – it’s the only way I know how to write.

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

I actually think I’m probably more interested in structure than most people who write screenplays, because I think about it.

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