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You spend most of your time as a director trying to move forward with the movie. it happens on a daily basis, if not more than once a day, that you are struggling with budgetary constraints. whereas when you're writing, the limitation that you have is your imagination. so it's decidedly non-pragmatic.
-Charlie Kaufman
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Charlie Kaufman
You spend most of your time as a director trying to move forward with the movie. it happens on a daily basis, if not more than once a day, that you are struggling with budgetary constraints. whereas when you're writing, the limitation that you have is your imagination. so it's decidedly non-pragmatic.
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