I think of myself as a guy who tries to write screenplays and now has tried to direct one. Anything more than that is meaningless and it gets in the way of being a real human being.


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AMIE KAUFMAN
I'm buried beneath an avalanche of papers, I don't understand the language of the country, and what ...
BEL KAUFMAN
How can you wish on a turkey wishbone with a man who is capable of correcting a love letter?
BEL KAUFMAN
I AM NOT. AND THEN I AM. I WONDER IF THAT WAS DEATH.
AMIE KAUFMAN
In the first few years it was kind of like the Wild West. Organizations changed the way they documen...
DAVID KAUFMAN
[Don and Tom] seemed like an odd couple at first. Don was a patent lawyer and Tom was a complete ner...
DAVID KAUFMAN
But I get the feeling that my congregation won't want to move. They love where we are in the city, t...
DAVID KAUFMAN
I'm not going to rule out anything,
DAVID KAUFMAN
Some of them are pretty heavy,
DAVID KAUFMAN
I like fun Beer Markets and the markets we are in now are fun to be in. We're having a blast promoti...
CRAIG KAUFMAN
I like fun Beer Markets and the markets we are in now are fun to be in. We're having a blast promoti...
CRAIG KAUFMAN
We're really not a Chinese beer, but more of a Euro-Asian Beer. Macau Beer was actually founded by a...
CRAIG KAUFMAN
Numbers do not feel. Do not bleed or weep or hope. They do not know bravery or sacrifice. Love and a...
AMIE KAUFMAN
Words signify man's refusal to accept the world as it is.
HERBERT KAUFMAN
Okay, there's this thing you can do, a thing you can do like no other person on this planet. That ma...
ANDREW KAUFMAN
All the people named Dan Kaufman who I find online seem to be short, balding Jewish men with glasses...
DAN KAUFMAN
There's a lot of people running around helping other people get their vehicles started. I'm keeping ...
DAN KAUFMAN
My roommate at Yale University introduced me to the auteur theory of filmmaking. I soon became a big...
LLOYD KAUFMAN
His eyes move to my lips, and I know he’s thinking the same thing; I can feel it in the way the ai...
AMIE KAUFMAN
What does it mean?” Flynn turns to gaze at me, eyes finally meeting mine.

I find myself...
AMIE KAUFMAN
My breath catches, responding to an unfamiliar pull in my chest, an ache in my soul. I shouldn’t m...
AMIE KAUFMAN
He can’t take his eyes off the stars, but I can’t take mine off his face. I can see the stars re...
AMIE KAUFMAN
He can’t take his eyes off the stars, but I can’t take mine off his face.
AMIE KAUFMAN
And I liked this extreme character of de Sade.
PHILIP KAUFMAN
Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with ...
PHILIP KAUFMAN
We are engaged in a very serious campaign over all of these initiatives and they are all failing, .....
GALE KAUFMAN
This is the first election that's about him .
GALE KAUFMAN
Why would they do that? They know he's failing.
GALE KAUFMAN
There is so much anger about the governor holding this election that we're not worried about turnout...
GALE KAUFMAN
This governor is spending $80 million of taxpayer money on an election that voters resoundingly have...
GALE KAUFMAN
I think it means what we've been saying all along - the governor's initiatives are not real reform. ...
GALE KAUFMAN
It's a phony election that he creates on issues that every poll says voters don't care about and he'...
GALE KAUFMAN
We were just delighted to have (Lewin).
GREG KAUFMAN
We wanted to promote civic engagement and to use the cultural arts to diversify the educational expe...
GREG KAUFMAN
From Dec. 1 to May 15, you have to drive your boat completely different.
GREG KAUFMAN
Data is very helpful in writing grant proposals to get funding for subsequent surveys. We certainly ...
GREGG KAUFMAN
After a lot of helpful conversation among faculty and students in the School of Health Sciences and ...
GREGG KAUFMAN
The Coverdell Institute is lodged in academic affairs and we serve to promote civic engagement and h...
GREGG KAUFMAN
In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the 8 hours when we stop killing each other and gratutio...
LLOYD KAUFMAN
Clear skies, cousin". Good luck, he means. There are never clear skies on Avon, no blue, no stars. B...
AMIE KAUFMAN
But when there's no hope to be found anywhere, even the tiniest chance is worth taking.
AMIE KAUFMAN
Am I not merciful?
AMIE KAUFMAN