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 am better at math than spelling.
I feel like everything I make is personal to me.
I have a home phone number, and I like it! It's like a throwback already.
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.
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.
As a director, you never get to watch other directors work, and you also don't get to collaborate with other directors that much.
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.
Whenever I start writing, I try to put together songs that feed the feeling of the movie.
'Where The Wild Things Are,' I think I could have written on my own. When I brought Dave Eggers on, I already had 60 pages of notes. I technically could have, but I don't think I was ready to. I needed him to be there and help me.
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.
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.
There are a lot of kids in the world. People seem to keep having them.