I think everything I do is based on my experience in the world in one way or another. — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
I choose to write characters from the inside because I feel like that's the way I'm gonna get the most honest version… — 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
Everything I've written is personal - it's the only way I know how to write. — 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… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
We're all subjective beings and trapped in our own realities and our own biographical stories and physical bodies and our histories -… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
There really is only one ending to any story. Human life ends in death. Until then, it keeps going and gets complicated… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
There's no way to approach anything in an objective way. We're completely subjective; our view of the world is completely controlled by… — 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
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
The way I work is not the way that you work, and the whole point of any creative act is that. What… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
In a lot of movies, especially big studio ones, they're not constructed in any other way than to get people to like… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
My point of view comes more from the literature I've read and the comedy of the era. When I was a kid,… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
You get a kind of surreal feeling and also it allows you to focus on the things we want you to focus… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
If you create something that is asking for people to respond as they're going to respond, you have to allow them to… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
People will say things after a screening that it affects them in a certain way, which is why I don't like to… — 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
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
The conventional wisdom is - people say this all the time - you should only write something when you're far enough away… — 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
The only honest and generous thing for me to do is to give people myself. That's all I've got as an artist,… — 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're all one thing, like cells in a body. 'Cept we can't see the body. The way fish can't see the ocean.… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
The way I write is very much without kind of a goal. I have something I'm interested in and then I decide… — 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
