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 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.
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 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.
Whenever I start writing, I try to put together songs that feed the feeling of the movie.
You get a buzz when getting texts: 'Oh, someone's thinking about me.'
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.
There are a lot of kids in the world. People seem to keep having them.
Moms are people, too. Moms make mistakes, too.
Movies, they take years of my life, so I'm fortunate that I get to work in a lot of different mediums.
Maurice Sendak never - I remember he said something that was very striking because it's something I never thought about. I always loved his work, and he said, 'I don't really view myself as a children's book author. I just try and write about childhood as honestly as I can.'
Me and my friends had BMX magazines and skate magazines, and I was a photographer who made skate videos.