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
I've got to say, I've probably seen a lot more of the Three Stooges than of the Marx Brothers.
I've done the thing where I stop being communicative, and I've been on the other side where the other person isn't communicating, and I become frustrated.
The best videos were the ones where I became friends with the artists first.
The Beastie Boys are guys I loved before I met them, and when I got to know them, we started a magazine together, and we started making videos together, and a lot of it came out of us just cracking ourselves up, like going to the fake mustache store and buying fake mustaches.
The world is becoming nicer and easier, but that doesn't mean we are any less lonely or any more connected.
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.
'Where The Wild Things Are,' I think I could have written on my own. When I brought Dave Eggers on, I already had 60 pages of notes. I technically could have, but I don't think I was ready to. I needed him to be there and help me.
When you're close to somebody, you can never really know how they're experiencing the world.
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.
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.
There were times in 'Adaptation' during the editing where I really thought, 'Okay, well, this was a noble failure. I tried to do something good, but this is not going to work.'
Any conversation I have with anybody that's real is always revealing and inspiring.
Arcade Fire has such intimacy and epic-ness, at the same time, and that's really inspiring.
After 'Where The Wild Things Are,' which was this big, long five-year project, I spent a year making small things.