By simply doing what they are designed to do something large and magnificient happens. In this sense they show us how to live. How the only barometer you have is your heart. How when you spot your flower, you can't let anything get in your way.
Charlie Kaufman
Nicolas Cage · 17 quotes
Amelia Kavan
Cara Seymour · 12 quotes
Donald Kaufman
Nicolas Cage · 8 quotes
Susan Orlean
Meryl Streep · 8 quotes
John Laroche
Chris Cooper · 7 quotes
Robert McKee
Brian Cox · 5 quotes
Most scenes together: Charlie Kaufman & Amelia Kavan (8), Charlie Kaufman & Donald Kaufman (4), Charlie Kaufman & Robert McKee (4)
Adaptation. quotes
Page 2 of 3Change is not a choice.
Darkness descends, bad things happen.
I don't want to cram in sex or guns or car chases or characters learning profound life lessons or growing or coming to like each other or overcome obstacles to succeed in the end. The book isn't like that, and life isn't like that, it just isn't.
I have to go right home. I know how to finish the script now. It ends with Kaufman driving home after his lunch with Amelia, thinking he knows how to finish the script. Shit, that's voice-over. McKee would not approve. How else can I show his thoughts? I don't know. Oh, who cares what McKee says? It feels right. Conclusive. I wonder who's gonna play me. Someone not too fat. I liked that Gerard Depardieu, but can he not do the accent? Anyway, it's done. And that's something. So: 'Kaufman drives off from his encounter with Amelia, filled for the first time with hope.' I like this. This is good.
I love you too, you know.
I suppose I do have one unembarrassed passion. I want to know how it feels to care about something passionately.
I'd wanna let the movie exist, rather than be artificially plot-driven.
I'll tell you a secret. The last act makes the film. Wow them in the end, and you've got a hit. You can have flaws, problems, but wow them in the end, and you've got a hit. Find an ending, but don't cheat, and don't you dare bring in a deus ex machina. Your characters must change, and the change must come from them. Do that, and you'll be fine.
I'm probably the smartest person I know.
It's over. Everything, I did everything wrong. I want my life back. I want it back before everything got **** up. I want to be a baby again. I want to be new. I WANT TO BE NEW.
McKee says we all have to realize we write in a genre, so we must find originality within that genre. Did you know that there hasn't been a new genre since Fellini invented the mockumentary...? My genre's thriller, what's yours?
Most people yearn for something exceptional, something so inspiring that they'd want to risk everything for that passion, but few would act on it. It was very powerful and intoxicating to be around someone so alive.
There are too many ideas and things and people. Too many directions to go. I was starting to believe the reason it matters to care passionately about something is that it whittles the world down to a more managable size.
To begin... To begin... How to start? I'm hungry. I should get coffee. Coffee would help me think. Maybe I should write something first, then reward myself with coffee. Coffee and a muffin. So I need to establish the themes. Maybe a banana nut. That's a good muffin.