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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

#deal #decisions #directing #experience #force

Everything I've written is personal - it's the only way I know how to write. ↗

— Charlie Kaufman

#how #i #know #only #personal

This is the paradox of public space: even if everyone knows an unpleasant fact, saying it in public changes everything. One of the first measures taken by the new Bolshevik government in 1918 was to make public the entire corpus of tsarist secret diplomacy, all the secret agreements, the secret clauses of public agreements etc. There too the target was the entire functioning of the state apparatuses of power. ↗

— Slavoj Žižek

#philosophy #political-science #wikileaks #change

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

— Charlie Kaufman

#actually #because #i #i think #interested

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. ↗

— Charlie Kaufman

#because #characters #did #directors #dynamic

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. ↗

— Charlie Kaufman

#background #i #i do #novels #one thing

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

#characters #decide #explore #go #goal

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

— Charlie Kaufman

#enjoyable #hard #i #me #process

I feel like I want to keep moving toward idiosyncracy. Personal, personal, personal. ↗

— Charlie Kaufman

#i #i feel #i feel like #keep #keep moving

I have a lot of health anxiety. ↗

— Charlie Kaufman

#health #i #lot