Jonze Spike Quotes & Sayings

I started directing videos at the same time that Michel Gondry was starting to direct videos, and I watched what he'd do. They all seemed to be pushing some new visual effects idea, but never just for spectacle. They all captured a feeling. — Spike Jonze

Obviously technology has become such a big presence in our lives and, I definitely know, in my life. — Spike Jonze

I've always loved music videos - I used to make my own for bands like Pearl Jam. My favorite directors are Michel Gondry, Spike Jonze, and Patrick Daughters. — Akiva Schaffer

Emotions are messy and hard to figure out. — Spike Jonze

Nicolas Cage, I would love to work with him again. He's just a fearless madman. He'll go anywhere you want to go. He would not say 'no' to anything. — Spike Jonze

I've done the thing where I stop being communicative, and I've been on the other side where the other person isn't communicating, and I become frustrated. — Spike Jonze

I think there is something about ... unless you come from a really evolved family that allowed you to talk about your feelings and felt like a safe environment, then you aren't really prepared to do that when you grow up. — Spike Jonze

Our subjectivity is so completely our own. — Spike Jonze

Arcade Fire has such intimacy and epic-ness, at the same time, and that's really inspiring. — Spike Jonze

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 remember when MySpace came out. It did do something pretty incredible - which was unite people around the world with common interests and common tastes. — Spike Jonze

Big emotions that are unexplained are really scary. At least to me. — Spike Jonze

There's a difference between stress and pressure. — Spike Jonze

Pop music, I think there's a reason why kids connect to it. — Spike Jonze

I think if something's emotionally real - and I'm not even talking about in movies or in art, but in life - you can't really argue with that, even if your intellectual mind might know differently. — 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

The best piece of advice I ever got from anyone was when Spike Jonze said, 'Take money out of the equation.' And that's actually when Vice started making lots of money. That's when I stopped worrying about money and started worrying about what I wanted to do. — Shane Smith

Moms are people, too. Moms make mistakes, too. — Spike Jonze

Don't differentiate between 'This is a job' and 'This is what I'm doing for fun.' It's all simultaneous. — Spike Jonze

When I'm making stuff, the thing that excites me most is not the result, but the process and trying to do something I've never done before. — Spike Jonze

I think because I'm not a parent, my most immediate connection to childhood is my memory of my own childhood. — Spike Jonze

The best videos were the ones where I became friends with the artists first. — Spike Jonze

A great poem leaves so much room for everybody to have such a different reaction to it. — Spike Jonze

I love when me and my friends don't know how to make something - there's that risk of failure, which should be there. If it's guaranteed not to fail, it's something you already know how to do. — Spike Jonze

When you're talking about the idea of loving your ex, and being able to hold on to that amidst all the other feelings of being heartbroken or sad or missing something that's gone --something dies when a relationship ends. It is a death because that thing that was the two of you together was alive and now it won't be and the only two people who really knew that thing was alive are the two of you. No one else knows. — Spike Jonze

I am better at math than spelling. — Spike Jonze

'Where The Wild Things Are,' I think I could have written on my own. When I brought Dave Eggers on, I already had 60 pages of notes. I technically could have, but I don't think I was ready to. I needed him to be there and help me. — Spike Jonze

I'll still make movies for studios, but my editing process will be much further removed from the studio system. Because I don't understand it. I don't understand the whole testing-numbers thing. It is not how I want to make movies. So if that's how they do it, then I don't think I want to do it. — Spike Jonze

Me and my friends had BMX magazines and skate magazines, and I was a photographer who made skate videos. — Spike Jonze

Every actor I've worked with I want to work with again. — Spike Jonze

If I leave my phone in the car and go to dinner or something for a few hours, I'm very proud of myself. — Spike Jonze

I think, as you're growing up, your emotions are just as deep as they are when you're an adult. You're ability to feel lonely, longing, confused or angry are just as deep. We don't feel things more as we get older. — Spike Jonze

What I learned from the Beastie Boys was to be independent. They set up their own world separate from the label. They built their own studio. — Spike Jonze

After 'Where the Wild Things Are,' I guess I felt more confident as a writer. — 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

If you compromise what you're trying to do just a little bit, you'll end up compromising a little more the next day or the next week, and when you lift your head you're suddenly really far away from where you're trying to go. — Spike Jonze

As a director, you never get to watch other directors work, and you also don't get to collaborate with other directors that much. — Spike Jonze

If you focus your energy on the camera, it takes away from the time you have to focus on the performances. — Spike Jonze

You can go on Nike's website and choose exactly what fabrics and colours and shapes you want your sneakers to come in. — Spike Jonze

Some of the best ideas come from sheer discovery, and not by some masterminded, preconceived genius. — 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 Beastie Boys are guys I loved before I met them, and when I got to know them, we started a magazine together, and we started making videos together, and a lot of it came out of us just cracking ourselves up, like going to the fake mustache store and buying fake mustaches. — Spike Jonze

I think at the beginning of a project, you decide if you're in love with the idea and what it's about, or what you think it's about at that time at least. Then you commit to it, and once you've commit to it no matter what, no matter how many self doubts you have, you're in it. The ship's sailed, you can't turn around. — Spike Jonze

The world is becoming nicer and easier, but that doesn't mean we are any less lonely or any more connected. — Spike Jonze

I loved Fugazi, the D.C. hardcore band, because they always did everything themselves. They had their own label, and the CDs always cost nine dollars, the T-shirts always cost eight dollars, the shows always cost five dollars, no major label. — Spike Jonze

I like people that define their own values. I am much more interested in somebody who has their own definition of what they value, their own definition of what success is, their own definition of what love is. — Spike Jonze

I don't know what life was like 1,000 years ago, but I imagine there was the same struggle: people trying to connect with each other. — Spike Jonze

I definitely enjoy getting to know people I find inspiring. — Spike Jonze

I love people that willfully defy what you're supposed to be and create their own definition of their selves. — Spike Jonze

A lot of times, you have an idea, and all the things you are thinking about might fuel it. But that's not where the idea came from. — Spike Jonze

I feel like you only have so much time to make stuff. I'm definitely aware of that. I'm also excited about it. — Spike Jonze

Is artificial intelligence less than our intelligence? — Spike Jonze

I'm not a film-snob. — Spike Jonze

Felt is not the easiest thing to animate. It's very flimsy. — Spike Jonze

I met Arcade Fire on their first record, 'Funeral.' I loved that record, and it was a record I was listening to while I wrote 'Where the Wild Things Are.' Those songs - especially 'Wake Up' and 'Neighbourhood' - there's a lot of that record that's about childhood. — Spike Jonze

I like hiring people based on a feeling - this person gets it - rather than what they've done in the past. — Spike Jonze

There were times in 'Adaptation' during the editing where I really thought, 'Okay, well, this was a noble failure. I tried to do something good, but this is not going to work.' — 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

I knew I could write infinitely about relationships. That's the most beautiful, most confusing, most rewarding, most heartbreaking thing in our lives - and not just romantic relationships: that's all relationships. — 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

I've done a couple of interviews, and I realized how uncomfortable I felt as soon as I started talking. — Spike Jonze

There's great food everywhere, and even McDonald's uses nice wood now. — Spike Jonze

The market groups and demographics said, 'Teenage guys don't read magazines.' — Spike Jonze

When you're close to somebody, you can never really know how they're experiencing the world. — Spike Jonze

I skated and rode bikes on ramps, and my mom was always super supportive. She was one of the only divorced moms in the neighborhood, so all the other parents looked down upon her for letting her kids do that kind of thing. — Spike Jonze

As creatives, it's a hard thing to push, to make something you're truly excited about, especially if you've written 100 different concepts and they keep getting shot down. — Spike Jonze

I like naps. I don't drink coffee. — Spike Jonze

There are a lot of kids in the world. People seem to keep having them. — Spike Jonze

I don't understand the whole testing-numbers thing. It is not how I want to make movies. — Spike Jonze

I'm fortunately not, like, typecast. I don't have to just do one kind of thing; I can do all kinds of things that reflect different parts of me. — Spike Jonze

I think the way kids create is so inspiring. They're drawing a picture? They love the picture they drew; they're not tortured about it. — Spike Jonze

I feel like everything I make is personal to me. — Spike Jonze

I've got to say, I've probably seen a lot more of the Three Stooges than of the Marx Brothers. — Spike Jonze

I want to make films without a single clear message, and films that are as close as possible to what it feels like to be alive. At least to me. — Spike Jonze

Doing a documentary is about discovering, being open, learning, and following curiosity. — Spike Jonze

I love so many directors. I love David O. Russell. I love David Fincher, I love Alexander Payne and Jane Campion and my aunt. Spike Jonze. There are just so many amazing directors. — Gia Coppola

I'm very nervous about taking jobs. I always make sure that, if I'm going to work with somebody, that they really understand what it is that I want to do. I'd rather not take the job than be vague about how I'm going to do something and run into trouble later on. It's a hard thing to negotiate. — Spike Jonze

The strengths and failings of a relationship depend entirely on your ability to talk about your feelings. — Spike Jonze

Even in this world where you're getting everything you need and having this nice life, there's still loneliness and longing and disconnection. — Spike Jonze

Sometimes I think I've felt everything I'm ever gonna feel and from here on out I'm not going to feel anything new - just lesser versions of what I've already felt. — Spike Jonze

The invention of the iPod changes how you use music. Suddenly you have music everywhere. — Spike Jonze

Maurice Sendak never - I remember he said something that was very striking because it's something I never thought about. I always loved his work, and he said, 'I don't really view myself as a children's book author. I just try and write about childhood as honestly as I can.' — Spike Jonze

I definitely check my phone for texts a lot - like, 'Did anyone text me? Is anyone thinking about me? Does anyone love me?' — Spike Jonze

I just want to be who I am, as I am. — Spike Jonze

We can empathize as deeply as we can empathize. — Spike Jonze

Getting to work on the thing that you're always thinking about anyways is like the biggest--that's the goal. — Spike Jonze

I'm not one to intellectualize why I did something. — 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

I worked at this bike shop called Rockville BMX, and I started going on this summer tour with this one company. One summer, we ended up in California, and I got to hang out with the guys who made 'Freestylin' - Andy Jenkins and Mark Lewman. — Spike Jonze

I knew Spike Jonze would do something really interesting with it. — Tilda Swinton

I like Kanye, and I care about him. — Spike Jonze

I like the idea of the documentary as a portrait. There's not a chronological beginning, middle, and end structure. You build something in the editing room that's shaped by getting to know the person and digging deeper, unpeeling the layers of them as you get to know them. — Spike Jonze

I never knew how to do anything before I did it, really. — Spike Jonze

Samantha Morton is one of the best actresses in the world. — Spike Jonze

If I can make one generalised statement, and generalised statements are never entirely true, nobody wants to be talked down to, kids included. — Spike Jonze

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

I would love to make video games. — Spike Jonze

Movies, they take years of my life, so I'm fortunate that I get to work in a lot of different mediums. — Spike Jonze

What the world is like from a nine-year-old's point of view? My memory is that nothing is explained to you, you've got to try to figure it out, pick up clues from the people around you, try to figure it out from their reactions. — Spike Jonze