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Charlie Kaufman On Charlie Kaufman
Synecdoche, New York
"It opened in the US in October and the reviews were really polarised: extraordinarily passionately positive or worst-movie-ever-made kind of thing. So no, I don't feel vulnerable anymore. I think I did. I was hurt by what I saw as personal, weird stuff that went on, to the point where I had to figure out how I was going to proceed. [I thought] 'I just don't want to do this anymore. I don't want to make movies anymore. I don't particularly like people anymore, I don't feel like I want to give them anything.' But I've come out of it and I'm working on something now.Is Synecdoche a horror film? In some ways, yeah. I just want to be careful calling it a horror film because I don't want to mislead people who are expecting it to be something it's not. I think it's about scary things. It's a troubled movie, but it's still got some comedy in it. When I can control the marketing, I try to. When people put things on posters like 'From the wild brain of Charlie Kaufman' - which happens a lot - I insist it's not there. I don't want to become a commodity or brand or repeat myself trying to establish something to people. Given that there are certain things I guess I think about, there's maybe some stylistic similarities and things that I do over time, but I'm not trying for it."
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