Charlie Kaufman Quotes About Character

Quotes about: Character

• So when I write characters and situations and relationships, I try to sort of utilize what I know about the world, limited as it is, and what I hear from my friends and see with my relatives.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Writing, Character, Trying

• I hate a movie that will end by telling you that the first thing you should do is learn to love yourself. That is so insulting and condescending, and so meaningless. My characters don't learn to love each other or themselves.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Hate, Love Yourself, Character

  "Being Charlie Kaufman" by Michael Sragow, www.salon.com. November 11, 1999.

• There's a point I can get to where I start writing character and then through the dialogue, after all of this preparation, the thing starts to feel like it's a character developing through the dialogue. A lot of character traits do come from writing dialogue, but I have to be ready to do it.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Writing, Character, Preparation

  "Exploring Things: Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson On 'Anomalisa'". Interview with Brian Tallerico, www.rogerebert.com. December 29, 2015.

• Before you start production, you have characters you have created without actors in mind, then all of a sudden you've got actors. They bring an enormous amount in creating these characters, and creating the dynamics between the characters that you've written.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Character, Creating, Mind

• The way I write is very much without kind of a goal. I have something I'm interested in and then I decide I'm going to explore it. I don't know where the characters are going to go, I don't know what the movie is going to do or what the screenplay is going to do. For me, that's the way to keep it alive.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Writing, Character, Goal

• I can talk endlessly about characters, or why someone did this or that, and what that dynamic and interaction is. I really love it, and I think that actors really respond positively to the fact that I like to talk about that stuff, because I'm not sure that all directors do.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Character, Thinking, Actors

• 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.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Writing, Character, Way

  "Charlie Kaufman" by Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. October 22, 2008.

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