Born in November 1958, Kaufman is a
screenwriter, producer, director, and lyricist who wrote the films Being
John Malkovich, Adaptation, and (one of my faves) Eternal
Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, for which he won an Academy Award. Those three scripts appear in the Writers
Guild of America’s list of the 101 greatest movie screenplays ever written.
“I want to create situations that
give people something to think about,” Kaufman said about his works. His works explore such universal themes as
identity crisis, mortality, and the meaning of life through a parapsychological
framework, putting him fairly firmly in the “surrealist” category for his
writing.
A native of New York – and graduate
of NYU – Kaufman currently lives in California where he said his writing is
pretty “cut and dried.”
“When I write characters and
situations and relationships,” he said, “I try to sort of utilize what I know
about the world, limited as it is, and what I hear from my friends and see with
my relatives.”
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