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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

#everyone #ground #here #inherent #interest

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

At dramatic rehearsals, the only author that's better than an absent one is a dead one. ↗

— George S. Kaufman

#author #better #dead #dramatic #only

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

Rich men's sons are seldom rich men's fathers. ↗

— Herbert Kaufman

#fathers #men #rich #seldom #sons

Courtrooms contain every symbol of authority that a set designer could imagine. Everyone stands up when you come in. You wear a costume identifying you as, if not quite divine, someone special. ↗

— Irving R. Kaufman

#come #contain #costume #could #designer

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