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Quotes from "Adaptation."  
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These are some famous quotes from the film about its screenwriter, Charlie Kaufman, called "Adaptation."

	To begin... To begin... How to start? I'm hungry. I should get coffee. Coffee would help me think. Maybe I should write something first, then reward myself with coffee. Coffee and a muffin. So I need to establish the themes. Maybe a banana nut. That's a good muffin.
	I don't want to cram in sex or guns or car chases or characters learning profound life lessons or growing or coming to like each other or overcome obstacles to succeed in the end. The book isn't like that, and life isn't like that, it just isn't.
	I should have gone in. I'm such a chicken. I should have kissed her. I should go knock on her door and just kiss her. It would be romantic. It would be something we'd tell our kids about someday. I'm going to do that right now. [drives away]
	You and I share the same DNA. Is there anything more lonely than that?
	Today is the first day of the rest of my life.
	I decided a long time ago that you are what you love, not who loves you.
	I got shot. Isn't that fucked up?
	McKee says we all have to realize we write in a genre, so we must find originality within that genre. Did you know that there hasn't been a new genre since Fellini invented the mockumentary...? My genre's thriller, what's yours?
	Who's gonna play me? I think I should play me.
	I'm probably the smartest person I know.
	Darkness falls, bad things happen.
	I suppose I do have one unembarrassed passion. I want to know how it feels to care about something passionately.
	It's over. Everything, I did everything wrong. I want my life back. I want it back before everything got fucked up. I want to be a baby again. I want to be new. I WANT TO BE NEW.
	Change is not a choice.
	I'll tell you a secret. The last act makes the film. Wow them in the end, and you've got a hit. You can have flaws, problems, but wow them in the end, and you've got a hit. Find an ending, but don't cheat, and don't you dare bring in a deus ex machina. Your characters must change, and the change must come from them. Do that, and you'll be fine.
	I love you too, you know.
	Adaptation is a profound process. Means you figure out how to thrive in the world.
	Then one morning, I woke up and said, "Fuck fish." I renounce fish, I will never set foot in that ocean again. And there hasn't been a time where I have stuck so much as a toe back in that ocean.
	Here you go. The killer's a literature professor. He cuts off little chunks from his victims' bodies until they die. He calls himself "the deconstructionist".

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Source: Compiled by LAL

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