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  • When I'm writing a script, before I can write dialogue or anything, I have two or three hundred pages of notes, which takes me a year. So, it's not like "what happens next." I've got things that I'm thinking about but I don't settle on them. And if I try to write dialogue before then, I can't. It's just garbage.

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