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I'm interested in trying to explore what I think is the truth at a given time in my life, and part of the process of being honest is - in my mind - talking about the idea that you're watching a movie. You're sitting here watching a movie. And I like that. It appeals to me intellectually, and also in a way I can't even explain. ↗

— Charlie Kaufman

#also #appeals #being #being honest #even

I'm not into extreme sports or something. I just live a quiet life. ↗

— Charlie Kaufman

#extreme sports #i #into #just #life

The loudest voices we hear are those who advocate conflict, divisiveness. ↗

— John C. Danforth

#conflict #divisiveness #hear #loudest #those

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

#art #aspect #creative #creative work #does

There's no way to approach anything in an objective way. We're completely subjective; our view of the world is completely controlled by who we are as human beings, as men or women, by our age, our history, our profession, by the state of the world. ↗

— Charlie Kaufman

#anything #approach #beings #completely #controlled

When I'm writing, I'm trying to immerse myself in the chaos of an emotional experience, rather than separate myself from it and look back at it from a distance with clarity and tell it as a story. Because that's how life is lived, you know? ↗

— Charlie Kaufman

#because #chaos #clarity #distance #emotional

Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#life #living #only #worth #worth living

To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks. ↗

— Irving R. Kaufman

#atrophies #available #becomes #cases #daily

Only things the dreamers make live on. They are the eternal conquerors. ↗

— Herbert Kaufman

#conquerors #dreamers #eternal #live #make

The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it. ↗

— Irving R. Kaufman

#about #ever #expensive #finding #happened