243 Quotes by Charlie Kaufman

I try to make things interesting and thought-provoking.

I'm trying to tell a story and do it truthfully.

I think if I've worked anything through with screenwriting it's that I'm not going to be able to work anything through.

The biggest thing that I came across, right off the bat, was that you can't shoot this like a regular movie with multiple takes. You have to, because it's such a protracted process, break it down to the frame and pretty much get one shot.

I really don't have any solutions and I don't like movies that do.

I wanted to deal with someone's idea of their relationship.

And then to see the whole movie, you're pretty much waiting until the end of production. And the major lifting in terms of editing and all that stuff is done before you shoot the movie. That's an unusual way to work.

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.

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