Charlie Kaufman Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 19, 1958

Topics

FunnySadYourselfThinkPresent

Fightin' George Foreman is like being in the street with an eighteen-wheeler comin' at you.

Joe Frazier

YouStreetBeingLikeForeman

I like to read my diary occasionally to remind myself what a miserable, alienated old sod I used to be.

Jo Brand

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I was a TV producer at a noncommercial station, and we were producing some good documentaries - on Head Start, on poverty. But I was struck by the children, and the damage that poverty was doing to them. I didn't think filming them was helping much, so I wondered how we could use TV for them, to teach them.

Joan Ganz Cooney

GoodChildrenStartThinkDoing

Sometimes, if you have a lot of history with a character and a lot of affection, it's hard for you to do anything with that character. Like with Swamp Thing, for instance, I revere the Alan Moore run so much that it would be hard for me to do my own Swamp Thing. I care too much about the way it was done before.

Jeff Lemire

CharacterHistoryMeCareYouRun

'Doing your own thing' and being a Christian is an oxymoron. As Christians, every day we need to be presenting ourselves before the Lord, thanking Him for His mercy and asking Him to make us more like Him by emptying us of our will, so God's will can be done.

Monica Johnson

GodDayChristianDoingEvery Day

Most of the population cannot afford a private driver. What we're doing is relentlessly innovating to bring the price point down.

Logan Green

DoingDownPricePointBringDriver

I feel like nowadays everybody I know has a smidge of geek in them. In other words, they have some odd niche or some obsessive tendencies.

Josh Zuckerman

WordsFeelKnowNicheGeekOdd

I've got to really try and manage my patience out there.

Jason Day

PatienceTryOutGotManageReally

When rock came along the lyrics and melodies became less important and it bothered me to think that perhaps they might not regain the value they have to music - they are music.

Dinah Shore

MusicValueMeThinkImportantRock

Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others.

Davy Crockett

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I went being unemployed for three years to being the lead in a British feature in the days when we only made two a year, 1990. It was ridiculous really.

Christopher Eccleston

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Life is too short to not have fun; we are only here for a short time compared to the sun and the moon and all that.

Coolio

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