{"author":"Charlie Kaufman","author_id":"Charlie+Kaufman","total_quotes":14,"quotes":[{"text":"I'm not into extreme sports or something. I just live a quiet life.","author":"Charlie Kaufman","tags":["life","live","quiet "],"id":6537,"author_id":"Charlie+Kaufman"},{"text":"Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.","author":"Charlie Kaufman","tags":["communication","talking"],"id":44790,"author_id":"Charlie+Kaufman"},{"text":"There really is only one ending to any story. Human life ends in death. Until then, it keeps going and gets complicated and there's loss. Everything involves loss; every relationship ends in one way or another.","author":"Charlie Kaufman","tags":["death","life","loss"],"id":65670,"author_id":"Charlie+Kaufman"},{"text":"You and I share the same DNA.Is there anything more lonely than that?","author":"Charlie Kaufman","tags":["alienation","dna","isolation","loneliness"],"id":171885,"author_id":"Charlie+Kaufman"},{"text":"Storytelling is inherently dangerous. Consider a traumatic event in your life. Think about how you experienced it. Now think about how you told it to someone a year later. Now think about how you told it for the hundredth time. It's not the same thing. Most people think perspective is a good thing: you can figure out characters' arcs, you can apply a moral, you can tell it with understanding and context. But this perspective is a misrepresentation: it's a reconstruction with meaning, and as such bears little resemblance to the event.","author":"Charlie Kaufman","tags":["advice","artistic-process","creative-process","creativity","emotion","life","loss","meaning","memory","perception","perspective","purpose","screenwriting","storytelling","time","tips","trauma","writing","writing-process"],"id":219449,"author_id":"Charlie+Kaufman"},{"text":"CLEMENTINE: This is it, Joel. It's going to be gone soon.JOEL: I know.CLEMENTINE: What do we do?JOEL: Enjoy it.","author":"Charlie Kaufman","tags":["grief","life","loss","love","memory","pain","writing"],"id":219594,"author_id":"Charlie+Kaufman"},{"text":"I've had to deal, a lot, with my own sense of intimidation at meeting famous people - especially actors, but really any famous people.","author":"Charlie Kaufman","tags":["people","famous people "],"id":230734,"author_id":"Charlie+Kaufman"},{"text":"I'm not a concept. Too many guys think I'm a concept or I complete them or I'm going to 'make them alive'…but I'm just a fucked up girl who's looking for my own peace of mind. Don't assign me yours.","author":"Charlie Kaufman","tags":["equality","feminism","idolizing","male-insecurity","muse","peace-of-mind"],"id":271533,"author_id":"Charlie+Kaufman"},{"text":"As a writer, or as a filmmaker, you have to present yourself, and part of what yourself is is what you're interested in, or what you think is funny, or what you think is sad, or what you think is horrible.","author":"Charlie Kaufman","tags":["funny","yourself","think "],"id":275478,"author_id":"Charlie+Kaufman"},{"text":"I really don't have any solutions and I don't like movies that do.","author":"Charlie Kaufman","tags":["solutions","like","really "],"id":322369,"author_id":"Charlie+Kaufman"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":14,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}