151 Quotes by Spike Jonze

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

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

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.

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

I'm a little slow, so forgive me if I'm inarticulate.

I like the idea of the documentary as a portrait. There's not a chronological beginning, middle, and end structure. You build something in the editing room that's shaped by getting to know the person and digging deeper, unpeeling the layers of them as you get to know them.

Emotions are messy and hard to figure out.

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.

If I can make one generalised statement, and generalised statements are never entirely true, nobody wants to be talked down to, kids included.