"Charlie Kaufman doesn't give many interviews." This has been mentioned in something like 5000 interviews with Charlie, over the past 7 years. I don't get it.

ANYWAY. Here's a great one with Ty Burr of the Boston Globe.

Q: But did you bring any models to this project?

A: No, I didn't. I don't like when people do that. I think it's always weird when people say, 'Yeah, I stole that from Scorsese.' I don't understand that. I don't even understand why people love it when someone does that. You know, critics write 'This is his influence and this is what he's doing with this style, borrowing from the Hong Kong directors or whatever. I guess I don't love film enough for that to be my interest. My interest is trying to be a human being and creating this world that reflects something that I feel, not to emulate someone else's style. If I copied David Lynch, who I love, then everybody would say 'He's copying David Lynch.' And they'd be right. I do dream stuff, he does dream stuff. But my dream stuff is not like his dream stuff, and I do think about the difference. What are my dreams like? That's what I'm thinking about. I don't have femme fatale dreams, I don't have women in 1940s make-up dreams. My dreams don't look like that. (Source)

Also:

I'll talk about the movie but I'm not going to tell people to go see it and I'm not going to tell them what it's about. I don't want to trick people into going to see it.

Boy. The folks who fronted the dough for Synecdoche must be pleased. Some good biographical nuggets in that article, too; some of it will be familiar to peeps who've been visiting BCK for a while.