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
Felt is not the easiest thing to animate. It's very flimsy.
Emotions are messy and hard to figure out.
What the world is like from a nine-year-old's point of view? My memory is that nothing is explained to you, you've got to try to figure it out, pick up clues from the people around you, try to figure it out from their reactions.
Big emotions that are unexplained are really scary. At least to me.
Music is thousands and thousands of years old and I don't think that basic, primitive connection to the language of music ever changes.
If I leave my phone in the car and go to dinner or something for a few hours, I'm very proud of myself.
Be willing to get fired for a good idea.
I like naps. I don't drink coffee.
I always aspire to that, where it feels like the film was made by the characters as opposed to the filmmakers. I try to be invisible.
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.
I just want to make whatever is exciting.
Don't differentiate between 'This is a job' and 'This is what I'm doing for fun.' It's all simultaneous.
I think at the beginning of a project, you decide if you're in love with the idea and what it's about, or what you think it's about at that time at least. Then you commit to it, and once you've commit to it no matter what, no matter how many self doubts you have, you're in it. The ship's sailed, you can't turn around.
You make a movie that is about what you want it to be about and let people have their reaction to it.