I think of myself as a guy who tries to write screenplays and now has tried to direct one. Anything more than that is meaningless and it gets in the way of being a real human being.
— 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.
I have a tendency to hire people who tend to be unattractive to the studios. Maybe this is a bad idea.
I was trying to figure out what a memory feels like.
I try to make things interesting and thought-provoking.
I want to create situations that give people something to think about.
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.
You are what you love. Not what loves you.
I do have some theatrical background. I've written plays and seen plays and read plays. But I also read novels. One thing I don't read is screenplays.
I really don't have any solutions and I don't like movies that do.
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.
Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.
