The invention of the iPod changes how you use music. Suddenly you have music everywhere. – Spike Jonze
Is an audience open to seeing a film that isn’t what they expect when they see a film that’s been adapted from a children’s book? – Spike Jonze
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. – 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 that long? What were you doing?’ – Spike Jonze
Johnny Knoxville went from struggling to pay his rent to being on the cover of ‘Rolling Stone’ in the course of, like, a month. – Spike Jonze
If I can make one generalised statement, and generalised statements are never entirely true, nobody wants to be talked down to, kids included. – Spike Jonze
There were times in ‘Adaptation’ during the editing where I really thought, ‘Okay, well, this was a noble failure. I tried to do something good, but this is not going to work.’ – Spike Jonze
If I leave my phone in the car and go to dinner or something for a few hours, I’m very proud of myself. – 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 changes. – Spike Jonze
You can go on Nike’s website and choose exactly what fabrics and colours and shapes you want your sneakers to come in. – Spike Jonze
Obviously, movies and music videos are different because they’re different lengths, and in a movie, you have more time to explore an idea. But I feel like they’re all the same, really. – Spike Jonze
I like hiring people based on a feeling – this person gets it – rather than what they’ve done in the past. – Spike Jonze
Arcade Fire has such intimacy and epic-ness, at the same time, and that’s really inspiring. – 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 movie just to make a movie. – Spike Jonze
As a director, you never get to watch other directors work, and you also don’t get to collaborate with other directors that much. – 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. He would not say ‘no’ to anything. – Spike Jonze