Art Quote by Charlie Kaufman

“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 represent an aspect of the whole of something. I can't think of an exception to that.” quote by Charlie Kaufman — Download Open image

“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 represent an aspect of the whole of something. I can't think of an exception to that.”

Charlie Kaufman

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I feel like I want to keep moving toward idiosyncracy. Personal, personal, personal.

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I actually think I'm probably more interested in structure than most people who write screenplays, because I think about it.

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