Clementine: This is it, Joel. It's going to be gone soon. Charlie Kaufman More Quotes by Charlie Kaufman More Quotes From Charlie Kaufman I try to present something that is true so I don't further destroy the world with my contribution to it. Charlie Kaufman contribution trying world I'm moving - as a person and as a writer - through time. I'm a different age. I'm thinking about different things. I have different life experiences. I'm trying to get closer to being honest. And by closer I mean that at different ages I have different ideas of what the truth is, and at any point I'm trying to express that at that moment in time. Charlie Kaufman mean moving thinking My point of view comes more from the literature I've read and the comedy of the era. When I was a kid, coming across National Lampoon Magazine, that was a big thing. I suddenly felt like there were other people that felt the way I did, and there was a way of expressing and communicating this worldview. Charlie Kaufman views kids people I just try to be honest, because I think that's part of my job description as a writer. Charlie Kaufman trying jobs thinking There's this inherent screenplay structure that everyone seems to be stuck on, this three-act thing. It doesn't really interest me. To me, it's kind of like saying, 'Well, when you do a painting, you always need to have sky here, the person here and the ground here.' Well, you don't. Charlie Kaufman me you painting sky I want to try it to see what it's like and see what my stuff looks like when I take it from inception to completion. Charlie Kaufman try see want looks
