Charlie Kaufman Quotes

If it's simple simple, it's boring. We try for the idea that is so simple that it will make you think and rethink.

I'm trying to find new ways to make this game more attractive.

Teaching is a creative profession, not a delivery system. Great teachers do [pass on information], but what great teachers also do is mentor, stimulate, provoke, engage.

It's all been very interesting.

I can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don't have to stay that way.

I turned everybody on so, psychologically, I guess I was pushing the boundaries creativity.

I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me.

You try to find things that are challenging and interesting and hopefully it will be the same to the audience.

I don't like films giving me answers. I like films that are provoking me, that are making me feel not only being in an easy place.

Make the paper interesting.

It is so easy now to never get bored because we have our phones with us all the time and we are always looking at stuff. I think when we get bored we are the most creative.

For me, a script has to be convincing, bold, and experimental. It needs to overpower all my senses.

Interesting things happen when the creative impulse is cultivated with curiosity, freedom and intensity.

It has all been most interesting.

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

I want to get people thinking.

Think of your favorite teacher you ever had in school: the one who made it the most fun to go to class. They surprise you. They keep you guessing. They keep you coming back, wanting to know what's going to happen next.

I always try to keep the circumstances in my life fresh. I like to change the physical environment I live in, change the people around me and try to experience things for the first time. I think that keeps one on their toes, creatively and spiritually.

I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.

People will be engaged in your work if it is good, interesting or challenging.

If you're trying to be more creative, one of the most important things you can do is increase the volume and diversity of the information to which you are exposed.

Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.

When I'm in a place like Iceland, I allow myself to take a little more time to divert off onto other paths creatively for a while and see what comes to me.

All styles are good except the tiresome kind.

I am attracted to anything that does not feel derivative.