#rest

There's no drama like wrestling. ↗

— Andy Kaufman

#like #wrestling

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

#funny #horrible #interested #part #present

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

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

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 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

#experience #generally #goes #head #i

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 a celebrity. I'm intentionally and defiantly not a celebrity. I don't have any interest in it. I don't have any talent for it. I keep my personal life out of my public life as cleanly as I can. ↗

— Charlie Kaufman

#celebrity #cleanly #i #i can #intentionally

If you create something that is asking for people to respond as they're going to respond, you have to allow them to respond as they're going to respond. Some of the people are going to be uninterested and some people are going to be mad for some reason, which is their business. That's just the way the world is. ↗

— Charlie Kaufman

#asking #business #create #going #just

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