Charlie Kaufman on Movies being 'dead'

"I just think that there is kind of a one root way of making movies in this culture. And that there's this sort of mindset that it has to be this one thing. And this is the structure of it and this is what has to happen to the characters...In any artform, the world opens up when you take that away and allow yourself to kind of think in a larger and more creative way about the process. So its not movies that I'm questioning, its whats being done with movies."



"I think that film is in a way a dead medium. With theater you've got accidents that can happen, performances that can change, but this is a recording. And so what I try to do is fuse my screenplays with enough information so that upon repeated viewings you can have a different experience. Rather than the movie goes linearly to one thing and at the end it tells you what the movies about.