Creating 'Something to think about'

 

“WhenI'm writing, I'm trying to immerse myself in the chaos of an emotionalexperience, rather than separate myself from it and look back at it from adistance with clarity and tell it as a story. Because that's how life is lived,you know?” – Charlie Kaufman

Bornin New York City on this date in 1958 Kaufman is a screenwriter, producer,director, and lyricist who wrote the films Being JohnMalkovich, Adaptation and Eternal Sunshineof the Spotless Mind, for which he won an AcademyAward.   Those three scripts are all in the Writers Guild ofAmerica’s list of the 101 greatest movie screenplays ever written. 

 

Agraduate of NYU – Kaufman currently lives in California where he said of hiswriting, “Iwant to create situations that give people something to think about.”   

                                                    

“WhenI write characters and situations and relationships,” he said, “I try to sortof utilize what I know about the world, limited as it is, and what I hear frommy friends and see with my relatives.”