Charlie Kaufman,
who wrote Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, and Eternal Sunshine of the
Spotless Mind, has now directed a film he wrote, called Synchdoce, New York. In
an interview with The Australian newspaper, he talked a bit about how he works:
"I have something I'm interested in and then I
decide I'm going to explore it. I don't know where the characters are going to
go or what the screenplay's going to do. For me, that's the way to keep it
alive and make it interesting and worthwhile."
"Realistic and naturalistic are not the same thing, and I think it's interesting to play with surrealism or dream logic and try to create a poem, a metaphor, something that sort of conveys a feeling or makes something happen in your gut that you don't necessarily intellectually understand.”
To which I would add--lucky is the scriptwriter who can get studio executives to agree with that!
