“I do believe you have a wound too. I do believe it is both specific to you and common to everyone. I do believe it is the thing about you that must be hidden and protected, it is the thing that must be tap danced over five shows a day, it is the thing that won't be interesting to other people if revealed. It is the thing that makes you weak and pathetic. It is the thing that truly, truly, truly makes loving you impossible. It is your secret, even from yourself. But it is the thing that wants to live.” PeopleIfsWantBelieveShowsInterestingCommonSecretFiveImpossibleWeakWoundsProtectedPatheticLoving You Author:Charlie Kaufman
“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
“The passionate ones, the ones who go after what they want, may not get what they want, but they remain vital, in touch with themselves, and when they lie on their deathbeds, they have few regrets.” WantMayLyingRegretPassionateDeathbed Author:Charlie Kaufman
“David Lynch is very important to me, and he does dreamlike movies, but my dreams are not like David Lynch's dreams. I have no interest in copying anybody's work. It would never occur to me to want this to look like someone else's thing.” WantLooksDoeImportantDreamInterestWorking ItCopying Author:Charlie Kaufman
“I want to do my own thing, and I'm trying to get closer to realizing that as a filmmaker.” WantTryingRealizingMy OwnFilmmaker Author:Charlie Kaufman
“I often have a theme in mind when I'm starting. I know that I want everything to be in a world of, say, evolution, or guilt.” KnowsWorldWantMindEvolutionGuiltStartingTheme 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
“People will say things after a screening that it affects them in a certain way, which is why I don't like to explain what certain things are about. I want them to have that. It limits people's ability to understand something if I say it's "about this." That's happened to us a bunch on this.” PeopleIfsWayWantCertainAbilityHappenedLimitsBunchScreening Author:Charlie Kaufman
“I feel like I want to keep moving toward idiosyncracy. Personal, personal, personal.” WantFeelsMovingKeep Moving Author:Charlie Kaufman
“We try to organize the world, which isn't organized the way our brains want to organize it. We tell stories about the people in our lives, we project ideas onto them. We project relationships with people, we make our lives into stories. I don't think we can avoid doing that.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayWantTryingIdeasStoriesBrainOur LivesProjectsOrganizedOrganizePeople In Our Lives Author:Charlie Kaufman
“I will be dying and so will you, and so will everyone here. That's what I want to explore. We're all hurtling towards death, yet here we are for the moment, alive. Each of us knowing we're going to die, each of us secretly believing we won't.” WantBelieveMomentsDiesKnowingAliveDyingChaos Author:Charlie Kaufman
“I want to create situations that give people something to think about.” PeopleThinkingWantGivingSituation Author:Charlie Kaufman
“The only honest and generous thing for me to do is to give people myself. That's all I've got as an artist, so I want to do that in an unflinching way.” PeopleWayWantGivingArtistHonestGenerous Author:Charlie Kaufman
