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Charlie Kaufman On Charlie Kaufman
Adaptation
"The experience I was going through is not accurately reflected in the movie, because it was a lot more painful. I got really depressed and traumatised. The movie got made so you know that it worked out, but [I had] that feeling of 'Oh fuck, I've taken money from someone, I can't pay it back and it's pretty early in my career', so I was really nervous about fucking it up. I would have quit if I could have. I do tend to start things and quit them when they're just my own, but if I've taken money I have an obligation to turn something in, so I have to forge ahead.We were shooting Malkovich at the time and I remember talking to Spike [Jonze] and telling him that I had this idea that I was going to write myself into the script and that I didn't even think it was something I would ever really do, that it was viable. Spike just laughed like it was a really cool idea. That was encouragement for me to go and do it, and I did, and I didn't tell anyone else, because I was afraid to. But once I committed to doing it, the script started to write itself in a really easy way, in a fun way, which was a lesson for me: to trust an odd instinct. It's sometime a really good thing to just trust it and see what happens."
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