Charlie Kaufman Quotes

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• The way I work is not the way that you work, and the whole point of any creative act is that. What I have to…
• Do not simplify. Do not worry about failure. Failure is a badge of honour. It means you risked failure.
• Seriously, I don't consider myself a writer. I don't think I have writing talent. But I will continue to do it.
• The world needs you. It doesn't need you at a party having read a book about how to appear smart at parties - these books…
• I will be dying and so will you, and so will everyone here. That's what I want to explore. We're all hurtling towards death, yet…
• The end is built into the beginning.
• Failure is a badge of honor. It means you risked failure. And if you don’t risk failure, you’re never going to do anything that’s different…
• I was trying to figure out what a memory feels like.
• My time on the set is the least of my involvement. Most of my time is in pre-production and post-production.
• It occurred to me that every work of art is a synecdoche, there's no way around it. Every creative work that someone does can only…
• The way I write is very much without kind of a goal. I have something I'm interested in and then I decide I'm going to…
• I'm not into extreme sports or something. I just live a quiet life.
• I want to create situations that give people something to think about.
• I studied acting at Boston University. I was in the theater department there. Somewhere in there I decided that wasn't what I was going to…
• I have a personality that tends to be somewhat compulsive, and I do tend to think in a circular way. I dwell on the same…
• I tend to not only read reviews, but also every little stupid thing online. It's a very bad idea, and there's a lot of angry…
• I think you just assume that your memory is just sort of a video playback of your experience, but it's nothing like that at all.…
• There's theater in life, obviously, and there's life in theater.
• I try to make things interesting and thought-provoking.
• I'm trying to tell a story and do it truthfully.

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