Charlie Kaufman answers big questions

This interview between Charlie, Duke Johnson and Ty Burr amuses me.

TB: I wanted to do something different with this interview, something a little “meta.” And my first question is, when you hear a reporter say “I want to do something different with this interview, something a little meta,” what emotion do you feel?

CK: Panic.

Duke Johnson: Numbness.

[...]

TB: What are the questions you don’t want asked about this project? The ones you dread.

[...]

DJ: “Why did this have to be animated?” It’s like —

CK: Asking “Why did this have to be live-action”?

DJ: Exactly. Why did you paint this picture with oil paints?

CK: Why did it have to be oil?

DJ: Why is it not watercolor?

CK: Why is it not Impressionistic? Why didn’t you do it in Photorealism?

DJ: Because that’s how I [expletive] painted it.

[...]

TB: “Anomalisa” name-checks and explores the Fregoli delusion[...] Are there other clinical delusions you’d like to make movies about? [...] Reduplicative paramnesia. Do you know what that is?

CK: No, but I like it. (Source)

Also a sad update on Frank or Francis:

CK: It’s not happening as far as I know. I want it to. We’ve been trying to raise money. No one’s interested.

And sad news for people who type things on the internet and would like to hear from the Kauf:

CK: I would never interact with somebody online.

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