151 Quotes by Spike Jonze

I’m not one to intellectualize why I did something.

I feel like you only have so much time to make stuff. I’m definitely aware of that. I’m also excited about it.

Felt is not the easiest thing to animate. It’s very flimsy.

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.

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

Sometimes I think I’ve felt everything I’m ever gonna feel and from here on out I’m not going to feel anything new – just lesser versions of what I’ve already felt.

Getting to work on the thing that you’re always thinking about anyways is like the biggest – that’s the goal.

When you’re talking about the idea of loving your ex, and being able to hold on to that amidst all the other feelings of being heartbroken or sad or missing something that’s gone – something dies when a relationship ends. It is a death because that thing that was the two of you together was alive and now it won’t be and the only two people who really knew that thing was alive are the two of you. No one else knows.

We’ll take care for each other, and we’ll all sleep together in a real pile.