“From my vantage point in writing a story, I can't and don't and have no interest in thinking about the level of sophistication of the audience. I can only think about what interests me, and maybe what I would want to see if I were watching the movie. To me, that's the key to writing something that's not pandering.” IfsThinkingWantWritingI CanStoriesInterestLevelsAudienceKeysSophisticationVantage Point Author:Charlie Kaufman
“I can never watch anything I've been involved in, because I know it, and I know what the making of it was like, and I know what's been cut out and changed. I just know it.” KnowsI CanWatchesCuttingChangedInvolved Author:Charlie Kaufman
“When I'm writing a script, before I can write dialogue or anything, I have two or three hundred pages of notes, which takes me a year. So, it's not like "what happens next." I've got things that I'm thinking about but I don't settle on them. And if I try to write dialogue before then, I can't. It's just garbage.” IfsThinkingWritingTryingYearsI CanTwoHappensThreeNextPagesHundredNotesScriptsDialogueSettlingTake MeGarbage 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
“Story ideas, but it's also musing on stuff that I'm thinking about. This leads me to this and this leads me to this. They're kind of random and haphazard. Often I can't find anything. Somehow, by doing that, even though I don't necessarily refer to them in a specific way, I have some sort of architecture in my head.” ThinkingWayKindI CanIdeasStoriesStuffArchitectureLeading MeMusingsHaphazard Author:Charlie Kaufman
“There is so much crap in the world, both in show and other businesses, that I try to be vulnerable myself, in the hopes that there is some truth I can get to, that makes people feel less alone in the world.” PeopleWorldFeelsTryingI CanShowsVulnerableCrap Author:Charlie Kaufman
“I have ideas written down some places, but usually I can't find them. I'm not very organized.” I CanIdeasWrittenOrganized Author:Charlie Kaufman
“I'm not a celebrity. I'm intentionally and defiantly not a celebrity. I don't have any interest in it. I don't have any talent for it. I keep my personal life out of my public life as cleanly as I can.” I CanInterestTalentPersonal LifePublic LifeCleanliness Author:Charlie Kaufman
“It occurred to me that every work of art is a synecdoche, there's no way around it. Every creative work that someone does can only represent an aspect of the whole of something. I can't think of an exception to that.” ThinkingWayDoeArtI CanWholeCreativeArt IsAspectExceptionWorks Of ArtCreative Work 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
