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Spike Jonze Biography

Adam Spiegel (born October 22, 1969), known professionally as Spike Jonze (pronounced "Jones"), is an American filmmaker, photographer, and actor, whose work includes music videos, commercials, film and television.

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Big emotions that are unexplained are really scary. At least to me.

Big, Bigs, Emotion, Emotions, Scary, Unexplained

Doing a documentary is about discovering, being open, learning, and following curiosity.

Curiosity, Documentaries, Discovering, Open, Learning, Documentary

If I leave my phone in the car and go to dinner or something for a few hours, I'm very proud of myself.

Car, Leave, Phone, Phones, Proud

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

Fun, Job, Jobs, Simultaneous

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.

Care, Childhood, Eye, Eyes, Perspective, World

I think the way kids create is so inspiring. They're drawing a picture? They love the picture they drew; they're not tortured about it.

Drawing, Drew, Inspiring, Kids, Think, Thinking

I like hiring people based on a feeling - this person gets it - rather than what they've done in the past.

Based, Feeling, Feelings, Like, Past, People

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

Connections, Language, Think, Thinking, Years

Even in this world where you’re getting everything you need and having this nice life, there’s still loneliness and longing and disconnection.

Everything, Life, Loneliness, Needs, Nice, World

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

Childhood, Connection, Memories, Memory, Thinking

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.

Character, Feels, Film, Invisible, Opposed, Trying

Chris Cooper I got to work with many times.

Chris, Cooper, Times, Work

The fact that Maurice Sendak said, "This is something that I made at your age, this was something that was personal to me, and now you need to take it and make something that's personal to you. " I don't know, but we made the Where The Wild Things Are movie that we set out to make, and Maurice loves it. If Maurice was anxious about it, then I would be petrified.

Age, Anxious, Set, Take, Wild Things

Where The Wild Things Are we were asking a lot of a 9-year-old kid. We were asking a lot of any actor.

Actor, Asking, Kid, Kids, Things, Wild Things

When I first moved up to San Francisco to write Where The Wild Things Are, I had a couple moments where I talked to somebody, and they're like, "Oh, I love that book. I love this part of it," or, "This is what it means to me. " And it's like, "Well, I don't know. I guess that's not what I'm making the movie about. " But very early on, I don't know, we sort of let go of that fear.

Book, Couple, Early, Letting Go, Moments, Movie

Finding a kid that could be introspective and internal and thoughtful, and then also be wild and free and guileless and physical, it was hard. So at the end we started getting down to panic time, and we still hadn't found our Max. And we decided to go about it a different way. We said, "Let's just find friends of ours that live in interesting cities in the country that maybe aren't as big, and people that don't do casting. " And thinking maybe you find a place that has an artistic community, maybe we'll find some interesting kids from there.

Big, Cities, Community, Country, Kids, Thoughtful

I like naps. I don't drink coffee.

Coffee, Drink, Like, Naps

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.

Compromising, Head, Lift, Next Day, Next Week, Trying

It's fun when you start a movie, because it's kind of like you get to go Christmas shopping. . . you get to make your wish list and you start thinking about what each character needs.

Character, Christmas, Fun, Kind, Start

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 to try to figure it out, pick up clues from the people around you, try to figure it out from their reactions.

Clues, Explained, Memories, Pick, Views, Years

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