Spike Jonze Quotes

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Spike Jonze

Profession : Director

Birth : October 22, 1969

I would love to make video games.

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

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Moms are people, too. Moms make mistakes, too.

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I like Kanye, and I care about him.

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

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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?'

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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?

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

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

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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'm always amazed when any actor can decipher my direction.

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I wasn't a film kid.

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

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There was definitely a point in my thirties when I thought, 'Oh, wow, I'm not the youngest person on the set anymore.' But I like it. Working with younger artists is totally exciting.

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Emotions are messy and hard to figure out. Hard to know where you start and the next person stops. Even as an adult, that's a hard thing to know. As a kid, it can be really confusing, because it's all new and you're trying to sort of make your map.

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I never knew how to do anything before I did it, 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 they do it, then I don't think I want to do it.

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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.

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

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