Charlie Kaufman Way Quotations

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.