I think everything I do is based on my experience in the world in one way or another. — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
Everything is more complicated than you think. You only see a tenth of what is true. — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
I just try to be honest, because I think that's part of my job description as a writer. — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
I don't subscribe to anything. I sit there and I try to think about what seems honest to me. — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
I don't have a style. I wouldn't say I have a style as a writer, either. I know people have said "This… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
I think I've had pretty good experiences for the most part with the people who have directed my screenplays. — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
I think generally I'm kind of interested in subjective experience, what goes on inside someone's head, that being all they really know… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
I'm interested in art, and I think about the process of making art. It's part of my personality, my experience of the… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
I don't think the world objectively exists the way we think it exists. There's a constant sort of storytelling process. — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a guy who tries to write screenplays and now has tried to direct one. Anything more than… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
I try when I'm writing to leave enough "space" for people to have their own interpretation, and not to direct it toward… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
I think there are things that aren't represented in movies that are a big part of everyone's life. We romanticize everything about… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
I'm Jewish, and my family is Jewish. I was very interested in Woody Allen when I was growing up, but I don't… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
When I'm writing a script, before I can write dialogue or anything, I have two or three hundred pages of notes, which… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
Yeah, once we decided to use that replacement animation, and the seams are a function of that animation, and other movies paint… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
I think you just assume that your memory is just sort of a video playback of your experience, but it's nothing like… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
I think that people have expectations of themselves and other people that are based on these fictions that are presented to them… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
I'm moving - as a person and as a writer - through time. I'm a different age. I'm thinking about different things.… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
I think now that I've tried directing, I'm not interested in doing adaptations anymore. I could do an adaptation of someone else's… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
I know that as a very young child, I was afraid of death. Many children become aware of the notion of death… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
“Do I have an original thought in my head? My bald head. Maybe if I were happier, my hair wouldn't be falling… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
I think dreams are metaphors. Everything you do in writing is metaphorical. So it seems like the same arena to me. — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
I actually think I'm probably more interested in structure than most people who write screenplays, because I think about it. — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I don't think screenwriting is therapeutic. It's actually really, really hard for me. It's not an enjoyable process. — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
I think that people create the world that they live in. Your existence is very subjective, and you tell stories and organize… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
I have a personality that tends to be somewhat compulsive, and I do tend to think in a circular way. I dwell… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
From my vantage point in writing a story, I can't and don't and have no interest in thinking about the level of… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
It occurred to me that every work of art is a synecdoche, there's no way around it. Every creative work that someone… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
Story ideas, but it's also musing on stuff that I'm thinking about. This leads me to this and this leads me to… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
We try to organize the world, which isn't organized the way our brains want to organize it. We tell stories about the… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
I think directing and writing are very different jobs. Obviously, directing is a more social and managerial job. The other thing about… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
I'm interested in trying to explore what I think is the truth at a given time in my life, and part of… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
I want to create situations that give people something to think about. — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
And also the idea of not making it apparent that it's different from the rest of the film, even though there are… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
As a writer, or as a filmmaker, you have to present yourself, and part of what yourself is is what you're interested… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
I can talk endlessly about characters, or why someone did this or that, and what that dynamic and interaction is. I really… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I spend a lot of time in preproduction working with authors, and a lot of time in postproduction.: editing, music, all that sort of… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
There's a point I can get to where I start writing character and then through the dialogue, after all of this preparation, the thing… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
Directing is a more pragmatic experience, where you have to deal with the restrictions of time and money that force you to make certain… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
I feel like I want to keep moving toward idiosyncracy. Personal, personal, personal. — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
I actually think I'm probably more interested in structure than most people who write screenplays, because I think about it. — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
Yeah, once we decided to use that replacement animation, and the seams are a function of that animation, and other movies paint those out,… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
I just try to be honest, because I think that's part of my job description as a writer. — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
