American - Writer | November 19, 1958 -
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
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I've had to deal, a lot, with my own sense of intimidation at meeting famous people - especially actors, but really any famous people.
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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.
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I have ideas written down some places, but usually I can't find them. I'm not very organized.
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I do throw out a lot of ideas, and I forget completely about them.
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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.
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I do have, at different times, a certain kind of self-consciousness in the world, an insecurity.
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I'm trying to tell a story and do it truthfully.
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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.
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I wanted to deal with someone's idea of their relationship.
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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. It's a complete refabrication of an event and a lot of it is made up, because you're filling in spaces.
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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 explore it. I don't know where the characters are going to go, I don't know what the movie is going to do or what the screenplay is going to do. For me, that's the way to keep it alive.
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