Quotes by Writing I'm not working on anything. I was trying to write something new . . . I guess the goal for me now, at least at this point, is to try to direct again. Charlie Kaufman goalwritingtrying I think I've had pretty good experiences for the most part with the people who have directed my screenplays. It's more that I wanted to see what it would be like if I didn't have to collaborate with anybody, to have a sense of purity of the thing from beginning to end. I liked doing it. It's really different from writing. Directing is a more pragmatic experience, where you have to deal with the restrictions of time and money that force you to make certain decisions you don't have to make when you're writing. Charlie Kaufman writingpeoplethinking 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. Charlie Kaufman writingpeoplethinking I don't write genre stuff in any form. I'm not interested in it. I always try to do the opposite of that. Charlie Kaufman oppositeswritingtrying Seriously, I don't consider myself a writer. I don't think I have writing talent. But I will continue to do it. Charlie Kaufman talentwritingthinking Directing is a more pragmatic experience, where you have to deal with the restrictions of time and money that force you to make certain decisions you don't have to make when you're writing. Charlie Kaufman restrictiondecisionwriting 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. Charlie Kaufman goalwritingcharacter I actually think I'm probably more interested in structure than most people who write screenplays, because I think about it. Charlie Kaufman writingpeoplethinking I love working with actors. I love visual things. I always intended to be a writer who directs and a director who writes. Charlie Kaufman actorswritingdirectors There's a point I can get to where I start writing character and then through the dialogue, after all of this preparation, the thing starts to feel like it's a character developing through the dialogue. A lot of character traits do come from writing dialogue, but I have to be ready to do it. Charlie Kaufman preparationwritingcharacter As I'm writing, I start to see connections, and themes I didn't see, and that sparks other things. So then I go back and rewrite things or alter them. It's a combination of intuition and a lot of finessing. It becomes a combination of the rational and the irrational. Charlie Kaufman intuitionconnectionswriting I don't have a style. I wouldn't say I have a style as a writer, either. I know people have said "This is what he does," but when I'm writing, I don't think about that. I don't think about a style. Charlie Kaufman writingpeoplethinking I choose to write characters from the inside because I feel like that's the way I'm gonna get the most honest version of them. Charlie Kaufman writingcharacterway I didn't like school. I was pretty much daydreaming all the time. I would be in the back of the class writing down random stories and stuff that would have nothing to do with school. I only lasted two years in high school before I moved out to L.A. Charlie McDermott writingyearsschool One metric catches people. We prefer businesses that drown in cash. An example of a different business is construction equipment. You work hard all year and there is your profit sitting in the yard. We avoid businesses like that. We prefer those that can write us a check at the end of the year. Charlie Munger hard-workwritingyears As actors, we were fighting that tooth and nail because of fear, because language is a crutch and dialogue is a crutch, and it's so easy to just have a great writer write you a line. Charlize Theron teethfightingwriting I think writing a book with film in mind is a way to write a really bad books. You can usually tell those books that are packaged to become films. Charlize Theron writingbookthinking I'm just going to write because I cannot help it. Charlotte Bronte writinghelping Too often do reviewers remind us of the mob of Astrologers, Chaldeans, and Soothsayers gathered before 'the writing on the wall' and unable to read the characters or make known the interpretation. Charlotte Bronte wallwritingcharacter You can write nothing of value unless you give yourself wholly to the the theme -- and when you so give yourself -- you lose appetite ans sleep -- it cannot be helped -- Charlotte Bronte sleepwritinggiving«225226227228229230231232233234235»
