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
Some of the best ideas come from sheer discovery, and not by some masterminded, preconceived genius.
I worked at this bike shop called Rockville BMX, and I started going on this summer tour with this one company. One summer, we ended up in California, and I got to hang out with the guys who made 'Freestylin' - Andy Jenkins and Mark Lewman.
I think if something's emotionally real - and I'm not even talking about in movies or in art, but in life - you can't really argue with that, even if your intellectual mind might know differently.
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.
I was only going to go to college because that's what I thought you were supposed to do.
You can go on Nike's website and choose exactly what fabrics and colours and shapes you want your sneakers to come in.
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.