Spike Jonze

I definitely enjoy getting to know people I find inspiring.

— 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

Is artificial intelligence less than our intelligence?

— Spike Jonze

I think, as you're growing up, your emotions are just as deep as they are when you're an adult. You're ability to…

— Spike Jonze

What I learned from the Beastie Boys was to be independent. They set up their own world separate from the label. They…

— Spike Jonze

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

— Spike Jonze

I am better at math than spelling.

— Spike Jonze

I just want to make whatever is exciting.

— Spike Jonze

The thing I remember most about having a tantrum is not the rage during the tantrum, but the being freaked out afterwards,…

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

— Spike Jonze

I remember when MySpace came out. It did do something pretty incredible - which was unite people around the world with common…

— Spike Jonze

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

— 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

'Where The Wild Things Are,' I think I could have written on my own. When I brought Dave Eggers on, I already…

— Spike Jonze

Felt is not the easiest thing to animate. It's very flimsy.

— Spike Jonze

Any conversation I have with anybody that's real is always revealing and inspiring.

— Spike Jonze

Movies, they take years of my life, so I'm fortunate that I get to work in a lot of different mediums.

— Spike Jonze

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

— Spike Jonze

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

— Spike Jonze

Maurice Sendak never - I remember he said something that was very striking because it's something I never thought about. I always…

— Spike Jonze

Every actor I've worked with I want to work with again.

— Spike Jonze

I've done a couple of interviews, and I realized how uncomfortable I felt as soon as I started talking.

— Spike Jonze

You make a movie that is about what you want it to be about and let people have their reaction to it.

— 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