Quotes from Charlie Kaufman

I don't subscribe to anything. I sit there and I try to think about what seems honest to me.

I have a lot of health anxiety.

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.

Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.

We're all subjective beings and trapped in our own realities and our own biographical stories and physical bodies and our histories - and that's the only way we can experience the world.

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

I've had to deal, a lot, with my own sense of intimidation at meeting famous people - especially actors, but really any famous people.