Quotes
Authors
Charlie Kaufman

"The conventional wisdom is - people say this all the time - you should only write something when you're far enough away from it that you can have a perspective. But that's not true. That's a story that you're telling. The truth of it is here, right now. It's the only truth that we ever know. And I'm interested in that truth and the confusion being part of the experience and sorting it your way through and figuring it out."

Source : "Charlie Kaufman" by Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. October 22, 2008.

Charlie Kaufman

#Writing Quotes #People Quotes #Confusion Quotes

“The hole in my heart, I canâ€™t even begin to describe. Itâ€™s hard when you open your heart and let someone in and then suddenly theyâ€™re not in it anymore. It doesnâ€™t matter whose fault it is; that empty spot stings so bad that you want to find any kind of relief, or wrap yourself up so tight you canâ€™t feel it anymore. I knew it might be there a little while. Or maybe even a long while. For both of us.”
“He found it so easy and so pleasant to cry that he didnâ€™t try to stop for a while, until he realized he was forcing his sobs a little, exaggerating their depth with unnecessary shudders. â€¦ The whole point of crying is to quit before you coined it up. The whole point of grief itself was to cut it out while it was still honest, while it still meant something. Because the thing was so easily corrupted”
“Fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship.”
“Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.”
“We [musicians] are comfortable in front of the camera doing music videos, and it's almost a form of acting when we're doing music videos. We're acting out our own thoughts and what we've written down on paper.”
“I think you realize how much you need to have people that you love. It's not as much about them loving you - it's about you needing to love people.”

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“If you can't do anything about it then let it go. Don't be a prisoner to things you can't change.”
“I'm genuinely curious about people, and I'm always interested when people do share with me. But I would not want someone to share something with me and then after the fact feel uncomfortable or regret it.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com

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