Charlie Kaufman on screenwriting and "Synecdoche"

Kaufman also draws a parallel between his creative process and that of his main character, Caden (Philip Seymour Hoffman), who spends an eternity trying to finish a play that keeps getting longer and more complicated. "If you're trying to be truthful, you start out with one idea, and as you become more familiar with it and explore different aspects of the idea, different things become revealed to you.  And you have to incorporate that. So whereas Caden's city kept getting bigger and bigger and more populated as time went on, there was really no ending to it. So that becomes a bit of a hindrance when you're writing, but I do feel like it's the way I like to write."

—David Sarno