#mo

I've had to deal, a lot, with my own sense of intimidation at meeting famous people - especially actors, but really any famous people. ↗

— Charlie Kaufman

#deal #especially #famous #famous people #had

I've kind of come to the conclusion that what passes for realism in movies has nothing to do with reality and that my stuff is more realistic than that. ↗

— Charlie Kaufman

#conclusion #i #kind #more #movies

In a lot of movies, especially big studio ones, they're not constructed in any other way than to get people to like them and then tell their friends. It's a product. ↗

— Charlie Kaufman

#big #constructed #especially #friends #get

My time on the set is the least of my involvement. Most of my time is in pre-production and post-production. ↗

— Charlie Kaufman

#least #most #my time #post-production #pre-production

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

I like terra firma; the more firma, the less terra. ↗

— George S. Kaufman

#less #like #more

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

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

The judge is forced for the most part to reach his audience through the medium of the press whose reporting of judicial decisions is all too often inaccurate and superficial. ↗

— Irving R. Kaufman

#decisions #forced #his #inaccurate #judge

The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society. ↗

— Irving R. Kaufman

#ammunition #armor #cloak #collective #court