Spike Jonze
Spike Jonze
Spike Jonzeis an American director, producer, screenwriter and actor, whose work includes music videos, commercials, film and television. He started his feature film directing career with Being John Malkovichand Adaptation, both written by Charlie Kaufman, and then started movies with screenplays of his own with Where the Wild Things Areand Her...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth22 October 1969
CityRockville, MD
CountryUnited States of America
When I was 20 years old, I had no plans to ever be a filmmaker.
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.
Johnny Knoxville went from struggling to pay his rent to being on the cover of 'Rolling Stone' in the course of, like, a month.
I'm hesitant to make grand statements because I feel like that it's not exactly what I'm writing about.
I just want to be who I am, as I am.
As creatives, it's a hard thing to push, to make something you're truly excited about, especially if you've written 100 different concepts and they keep getting shot down.
I'm always amazed when any actor can decipher my direction.
I love people that willfully defy what you're supposed to be and create their own definition of their selves.
As a director, you never get to watch other directors work, and you also don't get to collaborate with other directors that much.
I definitely liked the Muppets. I definitely liked Yoda in 'Empire Strikes Back' and Chewbacca. I don't know if I was a fan of puppets or those, like, specific characters.
We can empathize as deeply as we can empathize.
I like the idea of the documentary as a portrait. There's not a chronological beginning, middle, and end structure. You build something in the editing room that's shaped by getting to know the person and digging deeper, unpeeling the layers of them as you get to know them.
I'm a little slow, so forgive me if I'm inarticulate.
I have a home phone number, and I like it! It's like a throwback already.