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Thinking Quotes by Charlie Kaufman
- Seriously, I don't consider myself a writer. I don't think I have writing talent. But I will continue to do it.
- 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…
- I want to create situations that give people something to think about.
- 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 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.…
- I can talk endlessly about characters, or why someone did this or that, and what that dynamic and interaction is. I really love it, and…
- I think that people have expectations of themselves and other people that are based on these fictions that are presented to them as the way…
- I don't subscribe to anything. I sit there and I try to think about what seems honest to me.
- I think generally I'm kind of interested in subjective experience, what goes on inside someone's head, that being all they really know of the world.
- I think if I've worked anything through with screenwriting it's that I'm not going to be able to work anything through.
- I actually think I'm probably more interested in structure than most people who write screenplays, because I think about it.
- I don't think screenwriting is therapeutic. It's actually really, really hard for me. It's not an enjoyable process.
- I think I've had pretty good experiences for the most part with the people who have directed my screenplays.
- 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.
- 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…
- We try to organize the world, which isn't organized the way our brains want to organize it. We tell stories about the people in our…
- I think of myself as a guy who tries to write screenplays and now has tried to direct one. Anything more than that is meaningless…
- I know that as a very young child, I was afraid of death. Many children become aware of the notion of death early and it…
- Everything is more complicated than you think. You only see a tenth of what is true.
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