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 definitely check my phone for texts a lot - like, 'Did anyone text me? Is anyone thinking about me? Does anyone love me?'
The best videos were the ones where I became friends with the artists first.
The Beastie Boys are guys I loved before I met them, and when I got to know them, we started a magazine together, and we started making videos together, and a lot of it came out of us just cracking ourselves up, like going to the fake mustache store and buying fake mustaches.
The thing I remember most about having a tantrum is not the rage during the tantrum, but the being freaked out afterwards, and embarrassed, and guilty. It's scary to lose control of yourself.
I want to make films without a single clear message, and films that are as close as possible to what it feels like to be alive. At least to me.
I've got to say, I've probably seen a lot more of the Three Stooges than of the Marx Brothers.
I've done the thing where I stop being communicative, and I've been on the other side where the other person isn't communicating, and I become frustrated.
The world is becoming nicer and easier, but that doesn't mean we are any less lonely or any more connected.
The market groups and demographics said, 'Teenage guys don't read magazines.'
A great poem leaves so much room for everybody to have such a different reaction to it.
I think because I'm not a parent, my most immediate connection to childhood is my memory of my own childhood.
I am better at math than spelling.
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.
Doing a documentary is about discovering, being open, learning, and following curiosity.