151 Quotes by Spike Jonze

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

I think, as you’re growing up, your emotions are just as deep as they are when you’re an adult. You’re ability to feel lonely, longing, confused or angry are just as deep. We don’t feel things more as we get older.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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