Charlie Kaufman
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FLUME BARRY EISLER JOHN MALKOVICH There's a lot of things that are good in Scientology, because I wouldn't have been in it. An... LEAH REMINI I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan. BROOKE ELLIOTT I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously. ERINN HAYES It's weird: for someone who mostly really exists online, I'm actually not very interested in... FKA TWIGS Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON LINUS TORVALDS STEVE MARTIN The good and bad thing about online trolling: it's not on the street, and it's not on the st... GREG GUTFELD AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS SAM ALTMAN XAVIER DOLAN I see all these people talking about acting as a great spiritual thing. It's not. There's no... EDDIE MARSAN ADAM CAROLLA J. COLE MOBY There's this weird thing that happens when you contribute something to a static profile. You hav... EVAN SPIEGEL There's still a tremendous amount of homophobia in our culture. It's regrettable, it's s... RUPERT EVERETT I think a lot of people who are child actors - it's a weird thing. LORELEI LINKLATER NEIL PEART ELLA WOODWARD I try not to read the stuff online because it's so hurtful and stuff. There was somebody that sa... TAYLOUR PAIGE KRISTEN STEWART Miami is just really fun whenever I go there. It's like this post-apocalyptic Barbie world: ever... GRIMES CHANCE THE RAPPER DAX SHEPARD LILY JAMES Smoking sucks! The one thing I would say to my kid is, 'It's not just that it's bad for ... KATHERINE HEIGL PETER THIEL JAMES MCNERNEY It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON ELIJAH WOOD If people love 'Gremlins' so much and 'Clueless,' 'Yoga Hosers' is not that ... HARLEY QUINN SMITH I'm a very big proponent of cloud. We've used it a lot in private sector, and as far as we c... WILBUR ROSS JIM WEBB It's very important to me that people accept me as a transgendered female. But it's ridiculo... ALEXIS ARQUETTE Anybody that's been through a divorce, and I hope it's something people never have to experi... CHERYL COLE I can ride horses. And I read a lot. But that's kind of it. I think it's enough. ALICE ENGLERT XAVIER DOLAN In the West, people don't have any real problems. It's all based on bad conscience, a very C... MARJANE SATRAPI MAISIE WILLIAMS JOYCE GIRAUD LIL UZI VERT There are a lot of people who consider themselves 'spiritual,' but that can mean a lot of th... ZACHARY LEVI 'Skins' is about a group of teenagers in Bristol, and it's all about what they get up to... HANNAH MURRAY MAGIC JOHNSON I can make a scene that's not supposed to be sexy, very sexy. It's a power you're born w... TARA REID Acting is a win-win situation. There is no risk involved. That's why I get tired of hearing acto... JOHN CORBETT HELENA MATTSSON MATT DILLON Gosh, I think faith is a wonderful thing. And I even think religion's a wonderful thing. I know ... KELSEY GRAMMER It's definitely weird, because pretty much everybody owns the Tony Hawk videogame. Just going ov... BAM MARGERA There's no artist in this world that doesn't enjoy the dream that if they have bad reviews n... JANE CAMPION If I like a book, I tend to read the author's entire collection. But I choose mainly through per... RANDA ABDEL-FATTAH STIEG LARSSON You become so obsessed, and that's not a bad thing for a movie. Serve it with that sense that it... JAMES L. BROOKS It's a funny thing when you think you're dead. You're not terrified of it anymore. There... DAVID LANGE I'm not in the business of becoming famous. And that's the advice I give to younger aspiring... KRISTEN BELL JUSTINE SKYE I'm ashamed and embarrassed to say that I've read very little of David Foster Wallace's ... BEN FOUNTAIN RIDLEY SCOTT JONI MITCHELL The trap in Hamlet is he's the most passive of Shakespeare's characters. He's not a Rich... KURT SUTTER JOE SACCO I was in something called 'Garth Marenghi's Darkplace' which was a real cult comedy; it&... ALICE LOWE BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG DAVID CASSIDY To confront those fears, in a controlled environment, where there's 300 people around you going ... ADAM ARKIN ELI ROTH Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that's not me. AL YANKOVIC I don't know who made the first Aquaman joke. I'm sure it was comics readers; maybe we all d... GEOFF JOHNS Every single line, every single thing has to be fought over. There's kind of like an intrinsic d... PATRICIA RIGGEN HARVEY KEITEL The truth is not a bidimensional thing; it's not flat. It's rounded; it's like a sphere,... EDGAR RAMIREZ DARREN ARONOFSKY FIONA APPLE A lot of people love the idea of improvising but are terrified of it, so I tried to make a book that... SALLY SCHNEIDER TINASHE I've never been good at getting on people's nerves, and from the little quotes I read, it... ALI SHAHEED MUHAMMAD It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON RASHIDA JONES It's weird to have people just calling me Prince Charming in the street. It's a lot of press... JOSH DALLAS CHRIS HARDWICK In high school I was very much involved in poetry. You cannot read a poem quickly. There's too m... EUGENE H. PETERSON TYSON FURY We all went to Kelsey's wedding, and yeah, we go to parties. We also go to each other's hous... DAVID HYDE PIERCE
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I tend not to read reviews; there's too much out there in cyberspace. 
It's fun to improvise, but I still think it's better to have a great script, you know, like ... 
It's extraordinary how many people read a book that's new and weird and befriend it. 
It is a small world. You do not have to live in it particuarly long to learn that for yourself. Ther... 
What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it'... 
We have a tendency to think everyone's idiotic and everyone's only doing something idiotic, ... 
Helsinki isn't all that bad. It's a very nice city, and it's cold really only in wintert... 
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I was on the cover of a lot of newspapers. I was on the cover of USA Today for every single day for ... 
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People are stupid. There's a lot of dumb stuff that's successful. 
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Interviewer: So. Tell me about your mother.
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I am frequently underestimated. I think it's because I'm short. 
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