Samiul Bashar Samin
I need to earn a salary. I am doing what I can to make a living, but hoping to do what I would like to do,” the writer and director says. Charlie Kaufman said Friday that making independent films in the U.S. has been getting more and more difficult for him.
The writer and director admitted to taking jobs to pay the bills as he struggles to get his own projects made, such as animated feature Anomalisa.
He spoke to media at the 51st edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, where he is due to get the honorary President’s Crystal Globe award at its closing ceremony Saturday night.
“I’ve just written a script for Paramount that I would like to have made,”
Kaufman told journalists, without providing details. “I am basically trying to keep my head above water … at this point in the film business I am taking assignments when I get them; I need to earn a salary. I am doing what I can to make a living, but hoping to do what I would like to do.”