Her Movie Spike Jonze Quotes & Sayings

It's fun when you start a movie, because it's kind of like you get to go Christmas shopping ... you get to make your wish list and you start thinking about what each character needs. — Spike Jonze

I'd like to be in a Spike Jonze movie. But I live in a Nancy Meyers movie. — Chris Rock

I don't want to make a movie till I have an idea I have to make. I don't want to make a movie just to make a movie. — Spike Jonze

I think the thing that is meaningful is when I can tell that someone's been affected by the movie or by anything I made. — Spike Jonze

The past is just a story we tell ourselves. — Spike Jonze

Obviously, movies and music videos are different because they're different lengths, and in a movie, you have more time to explore an idea. But I feel like they're all the same, really. — Spike Jonze

If I heard somebody else say, 'I worked on a movie for five years', I'd be like, 'What? How could it take that long? What were you doing?' — Spike Jonze

Whenever I start writing, I try to put together songs that feed the feeling of the movie. — Spike Jonze

I feel like every movie, I've learned more and more about what I think of the world and what I'm trying to figure out. — Spike Jonze

You make a movie that is about what you want it to be about and let people have their reaction to it. — Spike Jonze

The result is a twitching convulsion of vicious drivel passing itself off as a movie, which can be best appreciated by the kind of people who dig Showgirls, the Saw franchise and Spike Jonze-Charlie Kaufman flicks. — Rex Reed

On everything I do I'm always taking someone's money, whether it's a movie studio or a record label. Somebody's paying for it, and I'm always respectful of that. But I'm never going to compromise. — Spike Jonze

Kids are so fiercely opinionated, that if they love the Harry Potter books and they go see the movie, they'll be the first to say, 'That was wrong! They didn't get that right!' They're storytellers themselves. They're critics. They're going to have the critical opinion. — Spike Jonze

I'm in awe of directors like the Coen brothers who can shoot their script and edit it, and that's the movie. They're not discovering the movie in postproduction. They're editing the script they shot. — Spike Jonze