Explore Quotes by Charlie Kaufman

My time on the set is the least of my involvement. Most of my time is in pre-production and post-production.

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

I think you just assume that your memory is just sort of a video playback of your experience, but it's nothing like that at all. It's a complete refabrication of an event and a lot of it is made up, because you're filling in spaces.

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

I'm not into extreme sports or something. I just live a quiet life.

I was trying to figure out what a memory feels like.

Failure is a badge of honor. It means you risked failure. And if you don’t risk failure, you’re never going to do anything that’s different from what you’ve already done or what somebody else has done.

I will be dying and so will you, and so will everyone here. That's what I want to explore. We're all hurtling towards death, yet here we are for the moment, alive. Each of us knowing we're going to die, each of us secretly believing we won't.

The world needs you. It doesn't need you at a party having read a book about how to appear smart at parties - these books exist, and they're tempting - but resist falling into that trap. The world needs you at the party starting real conversations, saying, 'I don't know,' and being kind.

The way I work is not the way that you work, and the whole point of any creative act is that. What I have to offer is me, what you have to offer is you, and if you offer yourself with authenticity and generosity I will be moved.

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

Seriously, I don't consider myself a writer. I don't think I have writing talent. But I will continue to do it.

She was nice. Nice is good.

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

Why do I fall in love with every woman I see that shows me the least bit of attention?

Writing is a journey into the unknown.

Clementine: This is it, Joel. It's going to be gone soon._x000D_Joel: I know._x000D_Clementine: What do we do?_x000D_Joel: Enjoy it.

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.

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

There are nearly thirteen million people in the world. None of those people is an extra. They're all the leads of their own stories. They have to be given their due.

Meet me in Montauk.