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I tend to not only read reviews, but also every little stupid thing online. It's a very bad idea, and there's a lot of angry people in the world. And it's weird to absorb all that weirdness.

~Charlie Kaufman

Topics: Absorb Also Angry Bad Bad Idea Every Idea Little Lot Online Only People Read Reviews Stupid Tend Thing Very Weird Weirdness World

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There's this inherent screenplay structure that everyone seems to be stuck on, this three-act thing. It doesn't really interest me. To me, it's kind of like saying, 'Well, when you do a painting, you always need to have sky here, the person here and the ground here.' Well, you don't.

~Charlie Kaufman

Topics: Always Everyone Ground Here Inherent Interest Kind Like Me Need Painting Person Really Saying Screenplay Seems Sky Structure Stuck Thing Well You

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I actually think I'm probably more interested in structure than most people who write screenplays, because I think about it.

~Charlie Kaufman

Topics: About Actually Because Interested More Most People Screenplays Structure Than Think Who Write I Think

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I have a lot of health anxiety.

~Charlie Kaufman

Topics: Anxiety Health Lot

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If you create something that is asking for people to respond as they're going to respond, you have to allow them to respond as they're going to respond. Some of the people are going to be uninterested and some people are going to be mad for some reason, which is their business. That's just the way the world is.

~Charlie Kaufman

Topics: Allow Asking Business Create Going Just Mad People Reason Respond Some Some People Something Them Way Which World You

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There's theater in life, obviously, and there's life in theater.

~Charlie Kaufman

Topics: Life Obviously Theater

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I think if something resonates, even if it's surreal, it's because it is relatable and I think that that's a core issue for me.

~Charlie Kaufman

Topics: Because Core Even Issue Me Resonates Something Surreal Think I Think

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I studied acting at Boston University. I was in the theater department there. Somewhere in there I decided that wasn't what I was going to do and I went to the B.F.A. film program at N.Y.U.

~Charlie Kaufman

Topics: Acting Boston Decided Department Film Going Program Somewhere Studied Theater University

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I graduated from college in 1980.

~Charlie Kaufman

Topics: College Graduated

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I'm old enough, by a long shot, to remember going to the library and spending days researching. If I was looking for a line from a poem or something else I needed, that would be the trip I would have to take.

~Charlie Kaufman

Topics: Days Else Enough Going Library Line Long Looking Needed Old Old Enough Poem Remember Researching Shot Something Something Else Spending Take Trip Would

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: November 1st, 1958

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