I have a background in theater, so I have experience with actors. I like actors - I used to be one.

- Charlie Kaufman

The passionate ones, the ones who go after what they want, may not get what they want, but they remain vital, in touch with themselves, and when they…

- Charlie Kaufman

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

- Charlie Kaufman

I think that people have expectations of themselves and other people that are based on these fictions that are presented to them as the way human lif…

- Charlie Kaufman

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

- Charlie Kaufman

Writing is a journey into the unknown.

- Charlie Kaufman

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 wa…

- Charlie Kaufman

I think of myself as a guy who tries to write screenplays and now has tried to direct one. Anything more than that is meaningless and it gets in the …

- Charlie Kaufman

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…

- Charlie Kaufman