In this interview conducted for the Herald, I chat to the peerless Charlie Kaufman about his dazzling new stop-motion movie Anomalisa, currently in cinemas.

The most dazzlingly original screenwriter of the modern era, Oscar-winner Charlie Kaufman followed his acclaimed screenplays for Being John Malkovich, Adaptation and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind by writing and directing 2008’s Synecdoche, New York, an insanely ambitious, multi-layered examination of the creative process starring the late Philip Seymour Hoffman.

The Oscar-nominated Anomalisa is his first release since and he’s still breaking new cinematic ground.