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'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.
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 think the way Win Butler writes, I really identify with it. He writes very emotionally and very cinematically, and I just connect with his sensibility.
I think there's a knee-jerk reaction to things from parents.
I think there is something about... unless you come from a really evolved family that allowed you to talk about your feelings and felt like a safe environment, then you aren't really prepared to do that when you grow up.
Is an audience open to seeing a film that isn't what they expect when they see a film that's been adapted from a children's book?
What I learned from the Beastie Boys was to be independent. They set up their own world separate from the label. They built their own studio.
When I was 20 years old, I had no plans to ever be a filmmaker.
I feel like every movie, I've learned more and more about what I think of the world and what I'm trying to figure out.
I don't want to make a movie till I have an idea I have to make. I don't want to make a movie just to make a movie.
I'd love to do a musical one day - a theatre musical.
The market groups and demographics said, 'Teenage guys don't read magazines.'