Spike Jonze Quotes
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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.
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Where The Wild Things Are we were asking a lot of a 9-year-old kid. We were asking a lot of any actor.
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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.
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Chris Cooper I got to work with many times.
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Be willing to get fired for a good idea.
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Don't differentiate between 'This is a job' and 'This is what I'm doing for fun.' It's all simultaneous.
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I like hiring people based on a feeling - this person gets it - rather than what they've done in the past.
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You make a movie that is about what you want it to be about and let people have their reaction to it.
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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.
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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.
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I definitely enjoy getting to know people I find inspiring.
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I feel like you only have so much time to make stuff. I'm definitely aware of that. I'm also excited about it.
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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.
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I think because I'm not a parent, my most immediate connection to childhood is my memory of my own childhood.
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If I can make one generalised statement, and generalised statements are never entirely true, nobody wants to be talked down to, kids included.
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You have to be involved and relate to the characters in order to make a film that is true emotionally.
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I like naps. I don't drink coffee.
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I'm not one to intellectualize why I did something.
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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.
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Big emotions that are unexplained are really scary. At least to me.
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I was lucky enough to know Maurice Sendak, and talked to him about doing the movie. For a while, I was really apprehensive of it, because Where The Wild Things Are is a book I love so much, and I didn't want to add something to it just to be able to make a movie, or put my stamp on it, or something like that.
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The things that are really out of control, and scary, are emotions - of people around you, that are unpredictable, or those in yourself which are unpredictable.
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I just want to make whatever is exciting.
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Felt is not the easiest thing to animate. It's very flimsy.
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If I leave my phone in the car and go to dinner or something for a few hours, I'm very proud of myself.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Emotions are messy and hard to figure out.
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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.
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