Charlie Kaufman Quotes
If you create something that is asking for people to respond as they're going to respond, you have to allow them to respond as they're going to respond. Some of the people are going to be uninterested and some people are going to be mad for some reason, which is their business. That's just the way the world is.
Kaufman, Charlie. Interview by Scott Tobias. The A.V. Club, G/O Media, 22 Oct. 2008.
Dyer was the 32nd and current mayor of Orlando, Florida, first elected in 2003, when he gave this interview to his Alma Mater magazine. Orlando had a few months earlier been the scene of the worst mass shooting in the history of the United States when one terrorist killer attacked a popular nightclub.
Charles Stuart Kaufman is an American screenwriter, producer, director, and novelist. He wrote the films Being John Malkovich (1999), Adaptation (2002), and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004). He made his directorial debut with Synecdoche, New York (2008), which film critic Roger Ebert called "the best movie of the decade" in 2009. Further directorial work includes the stop motion animated film Anomalisa (2015) and I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020). In 2020, Kaufman made his literary debut with the release of his first novel, Antkind.