American - Director | October 22, 1969 -
Obviously, movies and music videos are different because they're different lengths, and in a movie, you have more time to explore an idea. But I feel like they're all the same, really.
Spike Jonze
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Arcade Fire has such intimacy and epic-ness, at the same time, and that's really inspiring.
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Some of the best ideas come from sheer discovery, and not by some masterminded, preconceived genius.
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Writing is hard.
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Emotions are messy and hard to figure out. Hard to know where you start and the next person stops. Even as an adult, that's a hard thing to know. As a kid, it can be really confusing, because it's all new and you're trying to sort of make your map.
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There were times in 'Adaptation' during the editing where I really thought, 'Okay, well, this was a noble failure. I tried to do something good, but this is not going to work.'
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If you focus your energy on the camera, it takes away from the time you have to focus on the performances.
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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.
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I just want to make whatever is exciting.
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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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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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Kids are so fiercely opinionated, that if they love the Harry Potter books and they go see the movie, they'll be the first to say, 'That was wrong! They didn't get that right!' They're storytellers themselves. They're critics. They're going to have the critical opinion.
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