Spike Jonze

I never knew how to do anything before I did it, really.

— Spike Jonze

When I was 20 years old, I had no plans to ever be a filmmaker.

— Spike Jonze

Pop music, I think there's a reason why kids connect to it.

— Spike Jonze

Our subjectivity is so completely our own.

— Spike Jonze

I'm not one to intellectualize why I did something.

— Spike Jonze

Moms are people, too. Moms make mistakes, too.

— Spike Jonze

I'm a little slow, so forgive me if I'm inarticulate.

— Spike Jonze

I like naps. I don't drink coffee.

— Spike Jonze

The invention of the iPod changes how you use music. Suddenly you have music everywhere.

— Spike Jonze

I think because I'm not a parent, my most immediate connection to childhood is my memory of my own childhood.

— Spike Jonze

Obviously technology has become such a big presence in our lives and, I definitely know, in my life.

— Spike Jonze

Don't differentiate between 'This is a job' and 'This is what I'm doing for fun.' It's all simultaneous.

— Spike Jonze

Some of the best ideas come from sheer discovery, and not by some masterminded, preconceived genius.

— Spike Jonze

The best videos were the ones where I became friends with the artists first.

— Spike Jonze

I don't want to make a movie till I have an idea I have to make. I don't want to make a…

— Spike Jonze

Arcade Fire has such intimacy and epic-ness, at the same time, and that's really inspiring.

— Spike Jonze

I always aspire to that, where it feels like the film was made by the characters as opposed to the filmmakers. I…

— Spike Jonze

I loved Fugazi, the D.C. hardcore band, because they always did everything themselves. They had their own label, and the CDs always…

— Spike Jonze

Music is thousands and thousands of years old and I don't think that basic, primitive connection to the language of music ever…

— Spike Jonze

I want to make films without a single clear message, and films that are as close as possible to what it feels…

— Spike Jonze

If I heard somebody else say, 'I worked on a movie for five years', I'd be like, 'What? How could it take…

— Spike Jonze

Everything in L.A. is - it's just an easy place to live in. The houses are nice, the backyards are nice, you…

— Spike Jonze

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…

— Spike Jonze

I think if something's emotionally real - and I'm not even talking about in movies or in art, but in life -…

— Spike Jonze

I think at the beginning of a project, you decide if you're in love with the idea and what it's about, or…

— Spike Jonze

I met Arcade Fire on their first record, 'Funeral.' I loved that record, and it was a record I was listening to…

— Spike Jonze

Finding a kid that could be introspective and internal and thoughtful, and then also be wild and free and guileless and physical,…

— Spike Jonze

The fact that Maurice Sendak said, "This is something that I made at your age, this was something that was personal to…

— Spike Jonze

When I first moved up to San Francisco to write Where The Wild Things Are, I had a couple moments where I…

— Spike Jonze

I just want to be who I am, as I am.

— Spike Jonze

I am better at math than spelling.

— Spike Jonze

I'm always amazed when any actor can decipher my direction.

— Spike Jonze

I think there's a knee-jerk reaction to things from parents.

— Spike Jonze

I like Kanye, and I care about him.

— Spike Jonze

The world is becoming nicer and easier, but that doesn't mean we are any less lonely or any more connected.

— Spike Jonze

I don't understand the whole testing-numbers thing. It is not how I want to make movies.

— Spike Jonze

After 'Where The Wild Things Are,' which was this big, long five-year project, I spent a year making small things.

— Spike Jonze

If you focus your energy on the camera, it takes away from the time you have to focus on the performances.

— Spike Jonze

The market groups and demographics said, 'Teenage guys don't read magazines.'

— Spike Jonze

Me and my friends had BMX magazines and skate magazines, and I was a photographer who made skate videos.

— Spike Jonze