Do not simplify. Do not worry about failure. Failure is a badge of honour. It means you risked failure.
Charlie KaufmanStory ideas, but it's also musing on stuff that I'm thinking about. This leads me to this and this leads me to this. They're kind of random and haphazard. Often I can't find anything. Somehow, by doing that, even though I don't necessarily refer to them in a specific way, I have some sort of architecture in my head.
Charlie KaufmanThere 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.
Charlie KaufmanI'm Jewish, and my family is Jewish. I was very interested in Woody Allen when I was growing up, but I don't think of myself as a Jewish writer. I'm more from suburbia, American suburbia. I'm more from the '70s than I am from Judaism.
Charlie Kaufman