Charlie Kaufman Quotes

I'll never be able to really see a film that I'm in.

I personally don't prefer acting and directing in something because I don't have the same objectivity.

I have too many control issues, so it just is not good for me to go and watch a film, too soon after I make it.

I learned a lesson which I didn't heed: Don't put yourself in your movies. It's too much.

I'm so critical of my own work that it's difficult for me to disassociate myself and watch it as an audience.

I admire writers who can remain objective and distanced, but that doesn't seem to be in my toolbox somehow. I have to care, I have to have skin in the game.

Everybody expects you to be qualified to talk about your films, but in a way, you're the least qualified person to talk about them. When you're finished, you don't watch them at all.

Don't get seduced by your own stuff; work hard to keep a blank slate state of mind each time you watch your film.

I think once you've finished a movie you really have to detach from it so that you can come back and watch it as an audience member.

The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.

I don't watch my films. I've seen 'em enough after cutting them and putting the music on. I don't ever want to see them again.

I live my everyday life as a person, and I react to my photos from a certain distance. When I look at a photo, I detach myself and look at it as a product - not as me, Isabella.

I've learned not to attach personal feelings to critics who review your work. It's their opinions, their perceptions - it's a very subjective thing, and you can be hurt.

Everybody knows that I am not usually patient enough to actually sit down and watch one of my own films from the beginning to the end - I never do.

I get emotionally attached with every film I do, and that stops me from being critical. I can't fight my emotions.

I really like watching myself a lot because it gives me an opportunity to see it from outside the flesh, and when I view it like that, I can be a lot more cynical and see the things that need to be attacked.

I really loved making 'A Walk to Remember', so I'm not afraid of making smaller films. But for me, I just need to connect to the characters.

You are attached to what you attack.

Doing cinema is not about watching yourself.

In a very straightforward way, I am a terrible reporter. I'm not someone who can go into a story and not get involved.

The easiest way to not believe your own hype is to not know what people are saying about you.

A creation needs not only subjectivity, but also objectivity.

I try to keep myself on an even keel by trying to be as critical of myself as I am of other people. I try to separate my performance from myself.

I don't think any actor feels comfortable watching themselves in movies. You must be very narcissistic. The problem with your own opinion of yourself is that contrary to the normal spectators, when you watch a film you are in, you only watch yourself.

As a songwriter, it's kind of hard to listen to your own stuff with clarity.