On everything I do I’m always taking someone’s money, whether it’s a movie studio or a record label. Somebody’s paying for it, and I’m always respectful of that. But I’m never going to compromise. – 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
The strengths and failings of a relationship depend entirely on your ability to talk about your feelings. – Spike Jonze
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. – Spike Jonze
As creatives, it’s a hard thing to push, to make something you’re truly excited about, especially if you’ve written 100 different concepts and they keep getting shot down. – 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 what you think it’s about at that time at least. Then you commit to it, and once you’ve commit to it no matter what, no matter how many self doubts you have, you’re in it. The ship’s sailed, you can’t turn around. – 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
I’ve got to say, I’ve probably seen a lot more of the Three Stooges than of the Marx Brothers. – Spike Jonze
I think if something’s emotionally real – and I’m not even talking about in movies or in art, but in life – you can’t really argue with that, even if your intellectual mind might know differently. – Spike Jonze
A great poem leaves so much room for everybody to have such a different reaction to it. – Spike Jonze
I’m very nervous about taking jobs. I always make sure that, if I’m going to work with somebody, that they really understand what it is that I want to do. I’d rather not take the job than be vague about how I’m going to do something and run into trouble later on. It’s a hard thing to negotiate. – Spike Jonze
I’ve done a couple of interviews, and I realized how uncomfortable I felt as soon as I started talking. – Spike Jonze
I feel like you only have so much time to make stuff. I’m definitely aware of that. I’m also excited about it. – Spike Jonze
I always aspire to that, where it feels like the film was made by the characters as opposed to the filmmakers. I try to be invisible. – Spike Jonze
I don’t understand the whole testing-numbers thing. It is not how I want to make movies. – Spike Jonze
I definitely check my phone for texts a lot – like, ‘Did anyone text me? Is anyone thinking about me? Does anyone love me?’ – Spike Jonze
As a parent, your perspective of childhood is through the eyes of this person that you care so much about and you just want the world to be great for them. You want their life to be easy and happy. – Spike Jonze
I worked at this bike shop called Rockville BMX, and I started going on this summer tour with this one company. One summer, we ended up in California, and I got to hang out with the guys who made ‘Freestylin’ – Andy Jenkins and Mark Lewman. – Spike Jonze
Some of the best ideas come from sheer discovery, and not by some masterminded, preconceived genius. – Spike Jonze
I remember when MySpace came out. It did do something pretty incredible – which was unite people around the world with common interests and common tastes. – Spike Jonze
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. – Spike Jonze
I was only going to go to college because that’s what I thought you were supposed to do. – Spike Jonze
