Tasty Mystery Baskets of Clips

Has it been helpful talking to the writer? What's her name?

A child watches a mother beaten to death on the steps of a church.

and we must find our originality within that genre.

We open on Charlie Kaufman.

and then we'll be able to tell which way the sun's moving.

I'm looking for John Laroche.

and in the process falls in love with her.

From there we go to bigger things. Jellyfish.

We're gonna solve the whole Charlie Kaufman mess for once and for all.

I pitched my screenplay to Mom.

I'm gonna be a screenwriter. Like you.

Life seemed to be filled with things that were just like the ghost orchid.

This is the breakthrough I've been hoping for. It's never been done.

swooped down like an angel of God...

You put yourself in...

I'm a writer for The New Yorker. It's a magazine that...

I was watching you out the library window.

This is David, my friend.

- That sounds great. - There's amazing puppet theater.

I'm probably the smartest person I know.

Sybil meets, I don't know... Dressed to Kill.

I'm really freaking here, Johnny. Why is he here?

I don't think I can make it next weekend.

May I ask you gentlemen what you have in those pillowcases?

McKee is a former Fulbright Scholar, Charles.

Matthew lived on that shit till they ran out.

Darwin writes that we all come from the very first single-cell organism.

Therefore, I should infer from analogy

It had been a ceremonial thing,

Well, whatever. Well, moving on, what next?

Why should I be made to feel I have to apologize for my existence?

This is morally reprehensible.

I've been on this planet for 40 years, and I don't understand a single thing.

because, you know, he's an Indian, and it's his right.

Charlie, I'm with someone. Why are you doing this now?

The thing you gotta know is,

I'd wanna let the movie exist,

Oh, I wish I were an ant.

That's great. I'm anxious to see something.

- I can't tell about the van. I gotta pee. - No, tell us about the van.

Don't think so. It's cool for my killer to have this modus operandi.

I'm picking up an order for Kaufman.

And then we see, you know, like, dinosaurs.

All of them are him. Isn't that fucked up?

We'll get to the bottom of this. We're gonna fix your movie, bro.

Yeah, well, you know,

I've got to stop sweating.

She's acting weird with him, though, right?

Yeah, just bring in the six-footer.

I mean, he's really goddamn amazing at structure.

- I'm sorry. I was trying something... - Hey, I don't mind. It's funny.

It's been a wild ride.

- Really. - I'll go.

- You're a genius. - Which line?

Thanks for coming out with me tonight, Amelia.

Don't worry about that. We have screenwriters to write the screenplay.

On top of that, you explore the notion

I had 60 goddamn fish tanks in my house.

We have to have the case. Show Laroche.

I wonder who's gonna play me. Someone not too fat.

- Valerie. - Hi, Charlie.

I suppose I do have one unembarrassed passion.

I should leave right now. I'll start over. I need to face this project head-on...

Interesting answer.

The thing about computers, the thing I like,

You just attach yourself to me and suck me dry, spit me out.

Well, I've gotta write the book first, John.

Why didn't I go in? I'm such a chicken.

Okay. But I'm saying, it's like, I don't wanna cram in sex

I'm pathetic. I'm fat and pathetic.

What are we supposed to do?

but the young guys, you know, they liked to get stoned.

Maybe the only distinction between the plant and me