Charlie Kaufman Way Quotations

In a lot of movies, especially big studio ones, they're not constructed in any other way than to get people to like them and then tell their friends. It's a product.

There really is only one ending to any story. Human life ends in death. Until then, it keeps going and gets complicated and there's loss. Everything involves loss; every relationship ends in one way or another.

The way I work is not the way that you work, and the whole point of any creative act is that. What I have to offer is me, what you have to offer is you, and if you offer yourself with authenticity and generosity I will be moved.

The only way to do something interesting is not care if you fail.

People will say things after a screening that it affects them in a certain way, which is why I don't like to explain what certain things are about. I want them to have that. It limits people's ability to understand something if I say it's "about this." That's happened to us a bunch on this.

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.

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

I think everything I do is based on my experience in the world in one way or another.

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