Quote by Charlie Kaufman
I think you just assume that your memory is just sort of a video p

I think you just assume that your memory is just sort of a video playback of your experience, but its nothing like that at all. Its a complete refabrication of an event and a lot of it is made up, because youre filling in spaces. – Charlie Kaufman

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When Im writing, Im 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 thats how life is lived, you know? – Charlie Kaufman

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I think generally Im kind of interested in subjective experience, what goes on inside someones head, that being all they really know of the world. – Charlie Kaufman

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As a writer, or as a filmmaker, you have to present yourself, and part of what yourself is is what youre interested in, or what you think is funny, or what you think is sad, or what you think is horrible. – Charlie Kaufman

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Ive had to come to grips with a God that fits my own experience, which is, my God could not be offering protection and not have protected my boy. – Elizabeth Edwards

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Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions. – Robert M. Pirsig

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