"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."

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Source : "Spike Jonze: 'I'm never going to compromise'". Interview with Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. December 4, 2009.

Spike Jonze

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“I realize how depraved it was to instill false guilt in an innocent child's conscience, causing a distorted image of life, God, & self, leaving little if any feeling of personal worth.”
“All my other relationships with men, there was so much maneuvering and strategic decisions and stuff.”
“If Art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally.”
“Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers.”
“Because I don't believe that it's really desirable to have security on a computer, I shouldn't be willing to help uphold the security regime.”
“Many women have been successful at breaking the glass ceiling only to find a layer of men.”
“World peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it”
“So let us take our fair share of the true refugees and act responsible as a government in providing for their necessary expenses. Let us stop skewing the whole process by taking some folks who are not truly refugees in order simply to meet our foreign policy needs or domestic policy demands. There has to be a better way to meet those needs and demands than we are doing now. I think it is embarrassing to all of us who truly know the mission of the Refugee Act.”

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