How They Write A Script: Charlie Kaufman

Scott Myers
Go Into The Story
Published in
5 min readMay 8, 2024

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“When I started screenwriting, I never really knew what I was doing, but I instinctively understood how to do it.”

Charlie Kaufman [Photo: Getty Images]

Here are excerpts from three interviews with filmmaker Charlie Kaufman. The first is from Indie Wire in 1999 regarding the release of the movie Being John Malkovich:

Q: How much research do you do, for example into characters, before jumping into the…

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