Spike Jonze Quotes
Top 89 wise famous quotes and sayings by Spike Jonze
Spike Jonze Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I feel like you only have so much time to make stuff. I'm definitely aware of that. I'm also excited about it.
If I can make one generalised statement, and generalised statements are never entirely true, nobody wants to be talked down to, kids included.
You have to be involved and relate to the characters in order to make a film that is true emotionally.
I always aspire to that, where it feels like the film was made by the characters as opposed to the filmmakers. I try to be invisible.
I think because I'm not a parent, my most immediate connection to childhood is my memory of my own childhood.
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.
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.
Music is thousands and thousands of years old and I don't think that basic, primitive connection to the language of music ever changes.
I've done a couple of interviews, and I realized how uncomfortable I felt as soon as I started talking.
Me and my friends had BMX magazines and skate magazines, and I was a photographer who made skate videos.
Don't differentiate between 'This is a job' and 'This is what I'm doing for fun.' It's all simultaneous.
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.
If you focus your energy on the camera, it takes away from the time you have to focus on the performances.
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.
Johnny Knoxville went from struggling to pay his rent to being on the cover of 'Rolling Stone' in the course of, like, a month.
You make a movie that is about what you want it to be about and let people have their reaction to it.
Is an audience open to seeing a film that isn't what they expect when they see a film that's been adapted from a children's book?
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.
I'm hesitant to make grand statements because I feel like that it's not exactly what I'm writing about.
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.
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.
I definitely check my phone for texts a lot - like, 'Did anyone text me? Is anyone thinking about me? Does anyone love me?'
As a director, you never get to watch other directors work, and you also don't get to collaborate with other directors that much.
After 'Where The Wild Things Are,' which was this big, long five-year project, I spent a year making small things.
You can go on Nike's website and choose exactly what fabrics and colours and shapes you want your sneakers to come in.
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.
Movies, they take years of my life, so I'm fortunate that I get to work in a lot of different mediums.
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?'
Obviously technology has become such a big presence in our lives and, I definitely know, in my life.
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.
I love people that willfully defy what you're supposed to be and create their own definition of their selves.
The world is becoming nicer and easier, but that doesn't mean we are any less lonely or any more connected.
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.
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.
Some of the best ideas come from sheer discovery, and not by some masterminded, preconceived genius.
If I leave my phone in the car and go to dinner or something for a few hours, I'm very proud of myself.
Getting to work on the thing that you're always thinking about anyways is like the biggest--that's the goal.
The strengths and failings of a relationship depend entirely on your ability to talk about your feelings.