It occurred to me that every work of art is a synecdoche, there's no way around it. Every creative work that someone does can only represent an aspect of the whole of something. I can't think of an exception to that. Charlie Kaufman More Quotes by Charlie Kaufman More Quotes From Charlie Kaufman As a kid, I had a background in theater. Charlie Kaufman backgrounds theater kids I actually think I'm probably more interested in structure than most people who write screenplays, because I think about it. Charlie Kaufman writing people thinking I do throw out a lot of ideas, and I forget completely about them. Charlie Kaufman forget ideas I like titles that are a little difficult, because it's kind of counterintuitive. Charlie Kaufman titles kind littles 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. Charlie Kaufman love-yourself hate character 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. Charlie Kaufman people ideas thinking I think if I've worked anything through with screenwriting it's that I'm not going to be able to work anything through. Charlie Kaufman screenwriting able thinking I do have, at different times, a certain kind of self-consciousness in the world, an insecurity. Charlie Kaufman insecurity different self As a writer, or as a filmmaker, you have to present yourself, and part of what yourself is is what you're interested in, or what you think is funny, or what you think is sad, or what you think is horrible. Charlie Kaufman horrible funny thinking My time on the set is the least of my involvement. Most of my time is in pre-production and post-production. Charlie Kaufman involvement my-time posts 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. Charlie Kaufman goes-on world thinking She was nice. Nice is good. Charlie Kaufman eternal-sunshine nice And also the idea of not making it apparent that it's different from the rest of the film, even though there are visual differences, the audience is supposed to think that they are with him when he wakes up in the morning. Charlie Kaufman morning ideas thinking 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. Charlie Kaufman puppets focus feelings 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. Charlie Kaufman want people way I think everything I do is based on my experience in the world in one way or another. Charlie Kaufman way world thinking I'm interested in art, and I think about the process of making art. It's part of my personality, my experience of the world, so it ends up in the movies. It's where my head is. Charlie Kaufman personality art thinking 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 actors writing directors 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 preparation writing character I don't think I've had a lonely moment in my life. Charlie Kaufman moments lonely thinking
