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David Lynch is very important...

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.

Charlie Kaufman 152 quotes

Do not simplify. Do not worry...

Do not simplify. Do not worry about failure. Failure is a badge of honour. It means you risked failure.

Charlie Kaufman 152 quotes

I try when I'm writing to lea...

I try when I'm writing to leave enough "space" for people to have their own interpretation, and not to direct it toward one conclusion. Then the audience would not be reacting, because they are being preached to or lectured at. I don't have that much to say that I think people should listen to me.

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There is so much crap in the ...

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.

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We have the script, we have t...

We have the script, we have the actors, and we're trying to figure out what this is, and you don't know what it is. You have to be open to what it's going to become rather than have this thing that you're trying to get to, which is boring.

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The only honest and generous ...

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.

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So when I write characters an...

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.

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I want to create situations t...

I want to create situations that give people something to think about.

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I can talk endlessly about ch...

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.

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I think if something resonate...

I think if something resonates, even if it's surreal, it's because it is relatable and I think that that's a core issue for me.

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I've had to deal, a lot, with...

I've had to deal, a lot, with my own sense of intimidation at meeting famous people - especially actors, but really any famous people.

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I've kind of come to the conc...

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.

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The way I write is very much ...

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.

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We try to organize the world,...

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.

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I graduated from college in 1...

I graduated from college in 1980.

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I think that people have expe...

I think that people have expectations of themselves and other people that are based on these fictions that are presented to them as the way human life and relationships could be, in some sort of weird, ideal world, but they never are. So you're constantly being shown this garbage and you can't get there.

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I don't think screenwriting i...

I don't think screenwriting is therapeutic. It's actually really, really hard for me. It's not an enjoyable process.

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I think generally I'm kind of...

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.

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I actually think I'm probably...

I actually think I'm probably more interested in structure than most people who write screenplays, because I think about it.

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I'm old enough, by a long sho...

I'm old enough, by a long shot, to remember going to the library and spending days researching. If I was looking for a line from a poem or something else I needed, that would be the trip I would have to take.

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