You can read a longer version of the Phoenix interview I linked to a little while ago. It's divided into two parts:
Has a couple of really awkward moments, and more interesting stuff than the earlier version. At least, it's more interesting to me. I can't speak for the rest of you. I'm not that way inclined. Mmm.
Plus, adding to the whole when-the-hell-is-his-birthday mystery:
PK: You just had your fiftieth birthday, is that correct?
CK: That is correct.
PK: Did you have a party?
CK: Went out to dinner.
Which would seem to contradict the November 19 theory. So. Hmph? Also:
PK: It's a real picker upper. Did you read it?
CK: I did read it, I didn't like it as much as I hoped I would and now it's a major motion picture which also makes me nervous.
PK: I don't know if frozen ash and cannibalism are high concept material.
CK: [laughs] Well I won't reveal the surprise ending.
PK: Really? He wakes up at the end ...
CK: Turns out...
PK: Turns out it's all a play put on by Caden. What about the Fregoli Syndrome?
CK: You've been reading up on me.
PK: There's a website that is dedicated to you, have you seen it?
CK: To what? To me?
PK: Yeah, it's called “Being Charlie Kaufman.”
CK: Yeah, I didn't know they mentioned that on there.
We did. We're totally on the ball.
On the miniature paintings from Synecdoche, New York:
CK: I hired an artist named Alex Kanevsky to do them. ...The paintings aren't really tiny. That's a trick. They couldn't possibly be tiny and look like that, that would be impossible. That was what I liked about them was that they were very painterly. No, the real paintings that Alex did for us -- he's a really amazing artist, I asked him to do these portraits of the women in the movie and they're about this big...
PK: That's pretty tiny.
CK: Yeah but they're not painterly. You know, they're very meticulous looking things, you can have obviously small things like that, but they don't...you can't do this. You can't have sort of expressionistic brush strokes. I don't think you could do it. You know like that guy...the guy who does those little sculptures. You know what I'm talking about? You should look this guy up if you don't know his stuff. He does sculptures that are, you can't see them without a...his name is Wigan, I think? I want to say his first name is Willard but I'm not sure, it's something like that. He does these um...they're made out of dust and paint, and they're small enough that he'll do like the Statue of Liberty that fits on the head of a pin. Or he'll do Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs standing on a pin, and they're about this big. You can't see them without magnifying glasses. And they're extraordinary, but they're not, I don't want to say they're not painterly, but they're not very expressionistic. They have to be very precise because of the size of them. So I wanted something that you couldn't do in this size.
We've mentioned Wigan here, too. Because he's amazing.
