Spike Jonze

I think there is something about... unless you come from a really evolved family that allowed you to talk about your feelings…

— Spike Jonze

Whenever I start writing, I try to put together songs that feed the feeling of the movie.

— Spike Jonze

I'm in awe of directors like the Coen brothers who can shoot their script and edit it, and that's the movie. They're…

— Spike Jonze

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,…

— Spike Jonze

I think the way Win Butler writes, I really identify with it. He writes very emotionally and very cinematically, and I just…

— Spike Jonze

The things that are really out of control, and scary, are emotions - of people around you, that are unpredictable, or those…

— Spike Jonze

I definitely liked the Muppets. I definitely liked Yoda in 'Empire Strikes Back' and Chewbacca. I don't know if I was a…

— 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

I have a home phone number, and I like it! It's like a throwback already.

— Spike Jonze

A great poem leaves so much room for everybody to have such a different reaction to it.

— 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

Writing is hard.

— Spike Jonze

I skated and rode bikes on ramps, and my mom was always super supportive. She was one of the only divorced moms…

— Spike Jonze

I'd love to do a musical one day - a theatre musical.

— Spike Jonze

We can empathize as deeply as we can empathize.

— Spike Jonze

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

— Spike Jonze

Nicolas Cage, I would love to work with him again. He's just a fearless madman. He'll go anywhere you want to go.…

— Spike Jonze

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

— Spike Jonze

I wasn't a film kid.

— Spike Jonze

I like the idea of the documentary as a portrait. There's not a chronological beginning, middle, and end structure. You build something…

— Spike Jonze

I was only going to go to college because that's what I thought you were supposed to do.

— 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

I like naps. I don't drink coffee.

— Spike Jonze

I knew I could write infinitely about relationships. That's the most beautiful, most confusing, most rewarding, most heartbreaking thing in our lives…

— 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