Creating 'Something to think about'

 

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

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

 

A graduate of NYU – Kaufman currently lives in California where he said of his writing, “I want to create situations that give people something to think about.”   

                                                    

“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.”