#som

I studied acting at Boston University. I was in the theater department there. Somewhere in there I decided that wasn't what I was going to do and I went to the B.F.A. film program at N.Y.U. ↗

— Charlie Kaufman

#boston #decided #department #film #going

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

— Charlie Kaufman

#extreme sports #i #into #just #life

I'm old enough, by a long shot, to remember going to the library and spending days researching. If I was looking for a line from a poem or something else I needed, that would be the trip I would have to take. ↗

— Charlie Kaufman

#else #enough #going #i #library

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

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

Sometimes I don't like the books that I'm reading. ↗

— Charlie Kaufman

#i #like #reading #sometimes

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

If someone offered me a hundred million dollars to make a movie? I would first remind him that there are 850 million people in the world who don't have enough to eat. ↗

— Lloyd Kaufman

#eat #enough #first #him #hundred

But you know, there's always a danger nowadays that films are gonna be brought up to Canada for budget reasons. And that's something that really concerns me. ↗

— Philip Kaufman

#brought #budget #canada #concerns #danger