243 Quotes by Charlie Kaufman

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

There are things that aren’t represented in movies that are a big part of everyone’s life. This is a movie about health and about the body.

We try to organize the world, which isn’t organized the way our brains want to organize it. We tell stories about the people in our lives, we project ideas onto them. We project relationships with people, we make our lives into stories. I don’t think we can avoid doing that.

Everything I’ve written is personal – it’s the only way I know how to write.

I will be dying and so will you, and so will everyone here. That’s what I want to explore. We’re all hurtling towards death, yet here we are for the moment, alive. Each of us knowing we’re going to die, each of us secretly believing we won’t.

I don’t think the world objectively exists the way we think it exists. There’s a constant sort of storytelling process.

As I’m writing, I start to see connections, and themes I didn’t see, and that sparks other things. So then I go back and rewrite things or alter them. It’s a combination of intuition and a lot of finessing. It becomes a combination of the rational and the irrational.

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.

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.