“I choose to write characters from the inside because I feel like that's the way I'm gonna get the most honest version of them.” WayFeelsWritingCharacterHonestVersions Author:Charlie Kaufman
“There's a point I can get to where I start writing character and then through the dialogue, after all of this preparation, the thing starts to feel like it's a character developing through the dialogue. A lot of character traits do come from writing dialogue, but I have to be ready to do it.” FeelsWritingI CanCharacterReadyDialogueDevelopingPreparationTraitsCharacter TraitWriting Dialogue Author:Charlie Kaufman
“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.” KnowsWorldWritingTryingCharacterSituationMy Friends Author: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.” ShouldFirstsEndsCharacterHateI HateMeaninglessLove YourselfInsultingLove Each OtherCondescendingLearn To Love Yourself Author:Charlie Kaufman
“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.” MindCharacterActorsWrittenAmountCreatingProductionsEnormousDynamics Author:Charlie Kaufman
“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.” KnowsWayWritingKindCharacterGoalAliveScreenplays Author:Charlie Kaufman
“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.” ThinkingI CanCharacterFactsActorsStuffDirectorsNot SureInteractionPositively Author:Charlie Kaufman
