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Spike Jonze Quotes

American - Director | October 22, 1969 -

I want to make films without a single clear message, and films that are as close as possible to what it feels like to be alive. At least to me.

Me Alive Want Possible Single Clear

I worked at this bike shop called Rockville BMX, and I started going on this summer tour with this one company. One summer, we ended up in California, and I got to hang out with the guys who made 'Freestylin' - Andy Jenkins and Mark Lewman.

Bike Summer California Company Out

I definitely liked the Muppets. I definitely liked Yoda in 'Empire Strikes Back' and Chewbacca. I don't know if I was a fan of puppets or those, like, specific characters.

Back Know Empire Puppets Like Fan

I'm hesitant to make grand statements because I feel like that it's not exactly what I'm writing about.

Writing Feel Because I Feel Like

I think the thing that is meaningful is when I can tell that someone's been affected by the movie or by anything I made.

Think Someone I Can Tell Anything

I guess a lot of things I make are relationship movies. Maybe all movies are relationship movies, because they're all about how we relate to each other.

Relationship Movies Things Because

Any conversation I have with anybody that's real is always revealing and inspiring.

Conversation Real Always Anybody Any

Whenever I start writing, I try to put together songs that feed the feeling of the movie.

Together Writing Start Feeling Try

I skated and rode bikes on ramps, and my mom was always super supportive. She was one of the only divorced moms in the neighborhood, so all the other parents looked down upon her for letting her kids do that kind of thing.

Parents Mom Down Kind She Always

I met Arcade Fire on their first record, 'Funeral.' I loved that record, and it was a record I was listening to while I wrote 'Where the Wild Things Are.' Those songs - especially 'Wake Up' and 'Neighbourhood' - there's a lot of that record that's about childhood.

Fire Childhood Listening Wake Up Up

I think the way Win Butler writes, I really identify with it. He writes very emotionally and very cinematically, and I just connect with his sensibility.

Win Think Way Connect Just Identify

I don't want to make a movie till I have an idea I have to make. I don't want to make a movie just to make a movie.

Want Make Just Idea Movie Till

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