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Trying Quotes by Charlie Kaufman
- I was trying to figure out what a memory feels like.
- 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 try to make things interesting and thought-provoking.
- I'm trying to tell a story and do it truthfully.
- When I'm writing, I'm trying to immerse myself in the chaos of an emotional experience, rather than separate myself from it and look back at…
- So when I write characters and situations and relationships, I try to sort of utilize what I know about the world, limited as it is,…
- I don't subscribe to anything. I sit there and I try to think about what seems honest to me.
- I don't write genre stuff in any form. I'm not interested in it. I always try to do the opposite of that.
- 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…
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- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- I try to work on shows that I would want to watch. — J. J. Abrams
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas… — Andrea Arnold
- I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to… — Darren Aronofsky
- I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and… — Darren Aronofsky
- So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to… — Antonin Artaud
- Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try. — Mary Kay Ash