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I'm a little slow, so forgive me if I'm inarticulate.
— Spike Jonze
I'm always inspired by other filmmakers, whether it's a shot or the way they handle tone.
— Spike Jonze
Is artificial intelligence less than our intelligence?
— 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
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
You have to be involved and relate to the characters in order to make a film that is true emotionally.
— Spike Jonze
I'm not one to intellectualize why I did something.
— Spike Jonze
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.
— Spike Jonze
Every actor I've worked with I want to work with again.
— Spike Jonze
I feel like everything I make is personal to me.
— 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
I just want to make whatever is exciting.
— 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
I've got to say, I've probably seen a lot more of the Three Stooges than of the Marx Brothers.
— Spike Jonze
We can empathize as deeply as we can empathize.
— Spike Jonze
Music is thousands and thousands of years old and I don't think that basic, primitive connection to the language of music ever changes.
— Spike Jonze
I've done a couple of interviews, and I realized how uncomfortable I felt as soon as I started talking.
— Spike Jonze
I'm not a film-snob.
— 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
There's a difference between stress and pressure.
— Spike Jonze
Me and my friends had BMX magazines and skate magazines, and I was a photographer who made skate videos.
— 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
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
Whenever I start writing, I try to put together songs that feed the feeling of the movie.
— Spike Jonze
Johnny Knoxville went from struggling to pay his rent to being on the cover of 'Rolling Stone' in the course of, like, a month.
— Spike Jonze
I was only going to go to college because that's what I thought you were supposed to do.
— Spike Jonze
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?
— 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
I like Kanye, and I care about him.
— 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
Arcade Fire has such intimacy and epic-ness, at the same time, and that's really inspiring.
— Spike Jonze
The past is just a story we tell ourselves.
— 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
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
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'm hesitant to make grand statements because I feel like that it's not exactly what I'm writing about.
— Spike Jonze
I would love to make video games.
— 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
Moms are people, too. Moms make mistakes, too.
— Spike Jonze
I don't understand the whole testing-numbers thing. It is not how I want to make movies.
— Spike Jonze
I never knew how to do anything before I did it, really.
— Spike Jonze
I'd love to do a musical one day - a theatre musical.
— Spike Jonze
After 'Where The Wild Things Are,' which was this big, long five-year project, I spent a year making small things.
— Spike Jonze
When you're close to somebody, you can never really know how they're experiencing the world.
— Spike Jonze
A great poem leaves so much room for everybody to have such a different reaction to it.
— Spike Jonze
I just want to be who I am, as I am.
— 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
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
Chris Cooper I got to work with many times.
— 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
Be willing to get fired for a good idea.
— 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
The invention of the iPod changes how you use music. Suddenly you have music everywhere.
— Spike Jonze
Our subjectivity is so completely our own.
— 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
Obviously technology has become such a big presence in our lives and, I definitely know, in my life.
— 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
I am better at math than spelling.
— Spike Jonze
I love people that willfully defy what you're supposed to be and create their own definition of their selves.
— 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 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
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
Emotions are messy and hard to figure out.
— Spike Jonze
Some of the best ideas come from sheer discovery, and not by some masterminded, preconceived genius.
— 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
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
Getting to work on the thing that you're always thinking about anyways is like the biggest--that's the goal.
— Spike Jonze
The strengths and failings of a relationship depend entirely on your ability to talk about your feelings.
— Spike Jonze
Doing a documentary is about discovering, being open, learning, and following curiosity.
— 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
I like hiring people based on a feeling - this person gets it - rather than what they've done in the past.
— Spike Jonze
I like naps. I don't drink coffee.
— Spike Jonze