“When you approach middle age, lots of stuff happens. Your body is aging, you're watching people around you get sick, you're watching people die, your mortality becomes very present at that point in your life.” PeopleBodyHappensAgeDiesStuffMiddleApproachSickAgingYour BodyMortalityMiddle AgesStuff Happens Author:Charlie Kaufman
“I spend a lot of time in preproduction working with authors, and a lot of time in postproduction.: editing, music, all that sort of stuff. Casting. On the set there's not a lot for me to do.” StuffEditingCasting Author:Charlie Kaufman
“And then to see the whole movie, you're pretty much waiting until the end of production. And the major lifting in terms of editing and all that stuff is done before you shoot the movie. That's an unusual way to work.” WayEndsDoneWholeStuffWaitingTermMajorsProductionsUnusualEditingLiftingYou Re Pretty 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
“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 don't write genre stuff in any form. I'm not interested in it. I always try to do the opposite of that.” WritingTryingFormStuffOppositesGenreNot Interested 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
“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
