Charlie Kaufman Quotes, Thoughts and images

You are what you love. Not what loves you.

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

Writing is a journey into the unknown.

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.

The end is built into the beginning.

I think dreams are metaphors. Everything you do in writing is metaphorical. So it seems like the same arena to me.

I'm in my mind a lot. I live there.

Everything is more complicated than you think. You only see a tenth of what is true.

Do not simplify. Do not worry about failure. Failure is a badge of honour. It means you risked failure.

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

You and I share the same DNA. Is there anything more lonely than that?

I feel like I want to keep moving toward idiosyncracy. Personal, personal, personal.

I do a lot of things intuitively. I'm not often consciously aware of what I'm doing. It's like in a dream: There's something going on that's powerful but you don't know exactly why.

I do have, at different times, a certain kind of self-consciousness in the world, an insecurity.

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

I do like escapism. I like going to the movies on a Friday night and seeing something fun.

I really don't have any solutions and I don't like movies that do.

If you ever got me, you wouldn't have a clue what to do with me.

There are so many people who are making movies now who can’t get any kind of distribution, so the market seems like it’s flooded.

Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.

Meet me in Montauk.

I try to present something that is true so I don't further destroy the world with my contribution to it.

I think that people create the world that they live in. Your existence is very subjective, and you tell stories and organize the world outside of you into these stories to help you understand it.