“Yeah, once we decided to use that replacement animation, and the seams are a function of that animation, and other movies paint those out, we decided we wanted to keep the presence of the animation and the type of animation that it was rather than make it look polished. It created a kind of vulnerability, I think.” ThinkingLooksKindUseWantedTypeDecidedFunctionYeahPaintVulnerabilityAnimationPolishedReplacements Author:Charlie Kaufman
“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.” IfsWayWantHumansKindPersonsFeelingsMightHappensStuffInterestRoomsFocusSeeingFamiliarHotelNew WaysSurrealMundanePuppetsHotel Rooms Author:Charlie Kaufman
“There are so many people who are making movies now who can’t get any kind of distribution, so the market seems like it’s flooded.” PeopleKindSeemsDistribution 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
“I do have, at different times, a certain kind of self-consciousness in the world, an insecurity.” WorldKindDifferentSelfCertainConsciousnessInsecuritySelf ConsciousnessDifferent Times Author:Charlie Kaufman
“I like titles that are a little difficult, because it's kind of counterintuitive.” KindLittlesDifficultTitles Author:Charlie Kaufman
“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.” ThinkingKnowsWorldKindGoes OnSubjective Author:Charlie Kaufman
“I think now that I've tried directing, I'm not interested in doing adaptations anymore. I could do an adaptation of someone else's work that I would write, but the idea of taking someone else's material entirely doesn't interest me. One of the things that I found really helpful, at least in my mind - and I've never discussed this with the actors or with the people I work with - is that being a neophyte in directing, I feel like I have a kind of authority simply because I'm the writer as well.” PeopleThinkingWritingMindKindInterestAuthorityHelpfulNot InterestedAdaptation Author:Charlie Kaufman
“The world needs you. It doesn't need you at a party having read a book about how to appear smart at parties - these books exist, and they're tempting - but resist falling into that trap. The world needs you at the party starting real conversations, saying, 'I don't know,' and being kind.” KnowsWorldNeedsKindBookRealFallPartyConversationSmartStartingAppearanceBe KindInteractionTrapsNeed YouScreenwritersTemptingSocial InteractionReal ConversationFalse Appearances 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've kind of come to the conclusion that what passes for realism in movies has nothing to do with reality and that my stuff is more realistic than that.” KindRealityStuffConclusionRealisticRealism Author:Charlie Kaufman
