Spike Jonze famous quotes

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

#Past #People #Feelings

What the world is like from a nine-year-old's point of view? My memory is that nothing is explained to you, you've got to try to figure it out, pick up clues from the people around you, try to figure it out from their reactions.
-- Spike Jonze

#Memories #Views #Years

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.
-- Spike Jonze

#Lonely #Growing Up #Confused

The things that are really out of control, and scary, are emotions - of people around you, that are unpredictable, or those in yourself which are unpredictable.
-- Spike Jonze

#People #Scary #Emotion

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

#Nice #Loneliness #World

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

#Scary #Emotion #Bigs

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

#Character #Trying #Film

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

#People #Want #What You Want

I feel like everything I make is personal to me.
-- Spike Jonze

#Feels

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

#Thinking #Years #Connections

Chris Cooper I got to work with many times.
-- 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

#Stuff #Like You #Excited

I am better at math than spelling.
-- Spike Jonze

#Math #Spelling

I think at the beginning of a project, you decide if you're in love with the idea and what it's about, or what you think it's about at that time at least. Then you commit to it, and once you've commit to it no matter what, no matter how many self doubts you have, you're in it. The ship's sailed, you can't turn around.
-- Spike Jonze

#Thinking #Self #Ideas

Be willing to get fired for a good idea.
-- Spike Jonze

#Ideas #Design #Willing

I just want to make whatever is exciting.
-- Spike Jonze

#Want #Exciting

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

I'm not one to intellectualize why I did something.
-- Spike Jonze

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

#Numbers #Want #Testing

You have to be involved and relate to the characters in order to make a film that is true emotionally.
-- Spike Jonze

#Character #Order #Film

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

#Ipods #Use #Invention

As a parent, your perspective of childhood is through the eyes of this person that you care so much about and you just want the world to be great for them. You want their life to be easy and happy.
-- Spike Jonze

#Eye #Perspective #Parent

Doing a documentary is about discovering, being open, learning, and following curiosity.
-- Spike Jonze

#Curiosity #Documentaries #Discovering

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

#Kids #Want

It's fun when you start a movie, because it's kind of like you get to go Christmas shopping... you get to make your wish list and you start thinking about what each character needs.
-- Spike Jonze

#Christmas #Fun #Character

Emotions are messy and hard to figure out.
-- Spike Jonze

#Emotion #Figures #Messy

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

#Kids #Thinking #Drawing

I think because I'm not a parent, my most immediate connection to childhood is my memory of my own childhood.
-- Spike Jonze

#Memories #Thinking #Parent

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.
-- Spike Jonze

#Trying #Littles #Next

I like naps. I don't drink coffee.
-- Spike Jonze

#Coffee #Naps #Drink

On everything I do I'm always taking someone's money, whether it's a movie studio or a record label. Somebody's paying for it, and I'm always respectful of that. But I'm never going to compromise.
-- Spike Jonze

#Records #Labels #Compromise

The past is just a story we tell ourselves.
-- Spike Jonze

#Past #Stories