Charlie Kaufman
Charlie Kaufman
Charles Stuart "Charlie" Kaufmanis an American screenwriter, producer, director, and lyricist. He wrote the films Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. He made his directorial debut with Synecdoche, New York, which was also well-received; film critic Roger Ebert named it "the best movie of the decade" in 2009. It was followed by Anomalisa...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth19 November 1958
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Charlie Kaufman quotes about
I'm trying to tell a story and do it truthfully.
I try to make things interesting and thought-provoking.
You get a kind of surreal feeling and also it allows you to focus on the things we want you to focus on in a new way - the stuff that's very small and mundane that happens in a person's life when they're in a hotel room. There's more interest because you're seeing a puppet do things that you're very familiar with that you might not notice if it was a human doing it.
There's theater in life, obviously, and there's life in theater.
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.
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.
I don't think I've had a lonely moment in my life.
She was nice. Nice is good.
Sometimes I don't like the books that I'm reading.
I have a lot of health anxiety.
I think if something resonates, even if it's surreal, it's because it is relatable and I think that that's a core issue for me.
I actually think I'm probably more interested in structure than most people who write screenplays, because I think about it.
I do throw out a lot of ideas, and I forget completely about them.
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.