243 Quotes by Charlie Kaufman

I’ve had to deal, a lot, with my own sense of intimidation at meeting famous people – especially actors, but really any famous people.

We’re all subjective beings and trapped in our own realities and our own biographical stories and physical bodies and our histories – and that’s the only way we can experience the world.

We’re all one thing, like cells in a body. ‘Cept we can’t see the body. The way fish can’t see the ocean. And so we envy each other. Hurt each other. Hate each other. How silly is that? A heart cell hating a lung cell.

David Lynch is very important to me, and he does dreamlike movies, but my dreams are not like David Lynch’s dreams. I have no interest in copying anybody’s work. It would never occur to me to want this to look like someone else’s thing.

I choose to write characters from the inside because I feel like that’s the way I’m gonna get the most honest version of them.

There’s no way to approach anything in an objective way. We’re completely subjective; our view of the world is completely controlled by who we are as human beings, as men or women, by our age, our history, our profession, by the state of the world.

We are what we love, not what loves us.

You’re dealing with the body, and you’re dealing with bodily functions. We romanticize everything about people in movies.

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