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Way Quotes by Charlie Kaufman
- 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…
- 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 have a personality that tends to be somewhat compulsive, and I do tend to think in a circular way. I dwell on the same…
- The only honest and generous thing for me to do is to give people myself. That's all I've got as an artist, so I want…
- If you create something that is asking for people to respond as they're going to respond, you have to allow them to respond as they're…
- 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…
- There's no way to approach anything in an objective way. We're completely subjective; our view of the world is completely controlled by who we are…
- Everything I've written is personal - it's the only way I know how to write.
- 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…
- In a lot of movies, especially big studio ones, they're not constructed in any other way than to get people to like them and then…
- There really is only one ending to any story. Human life ends in death. Until then, it keeps going and gets complicated and there's loss.…
- 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. And so we…
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