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“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.”
Source : "Screenwriters' Lecture: Charlie Kaufman". Speech for BAFTA, www.bafta.org. 30 September 2011. 
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“How is it possible on the one hand, for example, to behave as if nothing on earth were more important than literature, and on the other fail to see that wherever one looks, people are struggling against hunger and will necessarily consider that the most important thing is what they earn at the end of the month? Because this is where he (the writer) is confronted with a new paradox: while all he wanted was to write for those who are hungry, he now discovers that it is only those who have plenty to eat who have the leisure to take notice of his existence.”
Source : Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 07, 2008.
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“A tourist is an ugly human being.”
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“People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies.”
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“The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.”
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“We don't just live in books awake and dreams asleep. We are living stories, you and I, with dreams inside us undeniable, with love to give and people to walk beside.”
Source : Jamie Tworkowski (2015). “If You Feel Too Much DELUXE: Thoughts on Things Found and Lost and Hoped For”, p.52, Penguin
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“I think of feminism as more of a political ideology.”
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“Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.”
