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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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 t...

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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.

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

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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.

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

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I would love to make video games.

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I'd love to do a musical one day - a theatre musical.

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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.

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I respect people that are die-hard film people, but I started on video. I started on Hi8 video and mini-DV, and I made skate videos. So, I love film, and I love the way it looks, but I also love the way crappy video looks, or VHS. I've always been a ...

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Music is thousands and thousands of years old and I don't think that basic, primitive connection to the language of music ever changes.

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

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

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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.

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

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I guess a lot of things I make are relationship movies. Maybe all movies are relationship movies, because they're all about how we relate to each other.

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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.

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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 t...

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

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Chris Cooper I got to work with many times.

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

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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 trou...

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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