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There's a point i can get to where i start writing character and then through the dialogue, after all of this preparation, the thing starts to feel like it's a character developing through the dialogue. a lot of character traits do come from writing dialogue, but i have to be ready to do it.

-Charlie Kaufman

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There's A Point I Can Get To

Charlie Kaufman

There's a point i can get to where i start writing character and then through the dialogue, after all of this preparation, the thing starts to feel like it's a character developing through the dialogue. a lot of character traits do come from writing dialogue, but i have to be ready to do it.

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I remember watching meryl streep in, the river wild. there's this scene where she's has a gun pointed at her, it's absurd in a lot of ways. someone pulls a gun on her i think, i'm not really fully aware of the scene and she just, she starts, you see her terrified. and then all of a sudden she starts to burst out laughing. she starts laughing. like she can't stop laughing. because she's terrified and she's emotional and there are no rules to what you're supposed to feel. that to me is like a number one, that's the thing i have to remind myself all the time.

No one's female and male, we all have so many different traits. it's just a lie that these certain traits are male and these certain traits are female.

I know if i persist it will pay back in dividends and it always does. what starts to happen is like exercise, the pain goes away. it starts to get easier and the weight starts to get lighter and people start to notice a difference in you and you start to notice a difference in yourself. you find your ability to make decisions is easier; you find you are inspired more often. you find your success increases. you find that your random moments when you're in the flow are no longer random and you can control them. other people notice the difference.

What is a scene? a) a scene starts and ends in one place at one time (the aristotelian unities of time and place-this stuff goes waaaayyyy back). b) a scene starts in one place emotionally and ends in another place emotionally. starts angry, ends embarrassed. starts lovestruck, ends disgusted. c) something happens in a scene, whereby the character cannot go back to the way things were before. make sure to finish a scene before you go on to the next. make something happen.

I've been writing for a long time, since the late '60s. but it hasn't been in the same form. i used to write scripts for television. i wrote for my comedy act. then i wrote screenplays, and then i started writing new yorker essays, and then i started writing plays. i didn't start writing prose, really, until the new yorker essays, but they were comic. i didn't start writing prose, really, until the '90s. in my head, there was a link between everything. one thing led to another.

Do you feel that you have lost your way in life? then god himself will show you your way. are you utterly helpless, worn out, body and soul? then god's eternal love is ready and willing to help you up, and revive you. are you wearied with doubts and terrors? then god's eternal light is ready to show you your way; god's eternal peace ready to give you peace. do you feel yourself full of sins and faults? then take heart; for god's unchangeable will is, to take away those sins, and purge you from those faults.

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