Charlie Kaufman Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• Say who you are, really say it in your life and in your work. Tell someone out there who is lost, someone not yet born, someone who won’t be born for 500 years. Your writing will be a record of your time. It can’t help but be that. But more importantly, if you’re honest about who you are, you’ll help that person be less lonely in their world because that person will recognise him or herself in you and that will give them hope.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Lonely, Writing, Years

  "Screenwriters' Lecture: Charlie Kaufman". Speech for BAFTA, www.bafta.org. 30 September 2011.

• The only honest and generous thing for me to do is to give people myself. That's all I've got as an artist, so I want to do that in an unflinching way.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Artist, People, Giving

• I know that as a very young child, I was afraid of death. Many children become aware of the notion of death early and it can be a very troubling thing. We're all in this continuum: I'm this age now, and if I live long enough I'll be that age. I was 20 once, I was 10, I was 4. People who are 20 now will be 50 one day. They don't know that! They know it in the abstract, but they don't know it. I'd like them to know it, because I think it gives you compassion.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Children, Thinking, Compassion

• I want to create situations that give people something to think about.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Thinking, People, Giving

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

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