Charlie Kaufman

Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.

I wanted to deal with someone's idea of their relationship.

There's theater in life, obviously, and there's life in theater.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.

I just had an idea that went right over my head.