Charlie Kaufman Quotes

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, and what I hear from my friends and see with my relatives.
Charlie Kaufman

Friends, Try, Write

Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.
Charlie Kaufman

Talking, Constantly

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 human life and relationships could be, in some sort of weird, ideal world, but they never are. So you're constantly being shown this garbage and you can't get there.
Charlie Kaufman

Life, Human, Themselves

You are what you love. Not what loves you.
Charlie Kaufman

I hate a movie that will end by telling you that the first thing you should do is learn to love yourself. That is so insulting and condescending, and so meaningless. My characters don't learn to love each other or themselves.
Charlie Kaufman

Love, Hate, Yourself

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 you think is funny, or what you think is sad, or what you think is horrible.
Charlie Kaufman

Funny, Sad, Yourself

I do have, at different times, a certain kind of self-consciousness in the world, an insecurity.
Charlie Kaufman

Insecurity, Different, Times

I do like escapism. I like going to the movies on a Friday night and seeing something fun.
Charlie Kaufman

Movies, Fun, Night

I don't subscribe to anything. I sit there and I try to think about what seems honest to me.
Charlie Kaufman

Try, Honest, Seems

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.
Charlie Kaufman

Experience, Someone, Head

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 as human beings, as men or women, by our age, our history, our profession, by the state of the world.
Charlie Kaufman

Age, Women, Men

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 lives, we project ideas onto them. We project relationships with people, we make our lives into stories. I don't think we can avoid doing that.
Charlie Kaufman

Try, Tell, Lives

As a kid, I had a background in theater.
Charlie Kaufman

Kid, Theater, Background

Before you start production, you have characters you have created without actors in mind, then all of a sudden you've got actors. They bring an enormous amount in creating these characters, and creating the dynamics between the characters that you've written.
Charlie Kaufman

Mind, Before, Between

Directing is a more pragmatic experience, where you have to deal with the restrictions of time and money that force you to make certain decisions you don't have to make when you're writing.
Charlie Kaufman

Time, Money, Experience

Everything I've written is personal - it's the only way I know how to write.
Charlie Kaufman

Everything, Write, Personal

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

Write, Actually, Interested

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 actors really respond positively to the fact that I like to talk about that stuff, because I'm not sure that all directors do.
Charlie Kaufman

Love, Someone, Why

I do have some theatrical background. I've written plays and seen plays and read plays. But I also read novels. One thing I don't read is screenplays.
Charlie Kaufman

Read, Seen, Written

I do throw out a lot of ideas, and I forget completely about them.
Charlie Kaufman

Forget, Ideas, Throw

I don't think screenwriting is therapeutic. It's actually really, really hard for me. It's not an enjoyable process.
Charlie Kaufman

Hard, Actually, Process

I don't write genre stuff in any form. I'm not interested in it. I always try to do the opposite of that.
Charlie Kaufman

Try, Write, Stuff

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

Moving, Keep, Personal

I graduated from college in 1980.
Charlie Kaufman

College, Graduated

I have a lot of health anxiety.
Charlie Kaufman

Health, Anxiety

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: November 1, 1958

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