Quotes by Spike Jonze

About Spike Jonze:

Spike Jonze is an American director, producer, screenwriter and actor, whose work includes music videos, commercials, film and television. He started his feature film directing career with Being John Malkovich (1999) and Adaptation (2002), both written by Charlie Kaufman, and then started movies with screenplays of his own with Where the Wild Things Are (2009) and Her (2013).
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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.

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I once heard someone on the radio saying that a bee is never more than forty minutes away from starving to death, and this fact has stayed with me because it seems to have a certain personal resonance. My children are in a perpetual proximity to cata...

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Speak up and speak clearly. I want to hear what you have to say because it matters. Let's listen to each other and respect one another's opinions. Although, they may be different, wisdom allows us to be responsible for our own feelings and actions.

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The past is just a story we tell ourselves.

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Samantha Morton is one of the best actresses in the world.

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

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Some of the best ideas come from sheer discovery, and not by some masterminded, preconceived genius.

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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.

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I just want to make whatever is exciting.

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

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

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Emotions are messy and hard to figure out.

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I like naps. I don't drink coffee.

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

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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.

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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 a...

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

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I definitely enjoy getting to know people I find inspiring.

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

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

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Author Bio

  • NameSpike Jonze
  • Descriptiondirector and actor from the United States
  • BornOctober 22, 1969
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionFilm Director; Film Producer; Actor
  • AwardsAcademy Award For Best Writing (Original Screenplay); Writers Guild Of America Award; Indiana Film Journalists Association Award For Best Director