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
Emotions are messy and hard to figure out. Hard to know where you start and the next person stops. Even as an adult, that's a hard thing to know. As a kid, it can be really confusing, because it's all new and you're trying to sort of make your map.
I don't know what life was like 1,000 years ago, but I imagine there was the same struggle: people trying to connect with each other.
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.
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.
If you compromise what you're trying to do just a little bit, you'll end up compromising a little more the next day or the next week, and when you lift your head you're suddenly really far away from where you're trying to go.
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.
The strengths and failings of a relationship depend entirely on your ability to talk about your feelings.
I started directing videos at the same time that Michel Gondry was starting to direct videos, and I watched what he'd do. They all seemed to be pushing some new visual effects idea, but never just for spectacle. They all captured a feeling.
I skated and rode bikes on ramps, and my mom was always super supportive. She was one of the only divorced moms in the neighborhood, so all the other parents looked down upon her for letting her kids do that kind of thing.
I've done a couple of interviews, and I realized how uncomfortable I felt as soon as I started talking.
Every actor I've worked with I want to work with again.
Samantha Morton is one of the best actresses in the world.
Everything in L.A. is - it's just an easy place to live in. The houses are nice, the backyards are nice, you got the ocean right there and the mountains behind you; there's an idealised easiness to the way you live and the whole environment.
You get a buzz when getting texts: 'Oh, someone's thinking about me.'