American - Director | October 22, 1969 -
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.
Spike Jonze
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You have to be involved and relate to the characters in order to make a film that is true emotionally.
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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.
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I always aspire to that, where it feels like the film was made by the characters as opposed to the filmmakers. I try to be invisible.
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Be willing to get fired for a good idea.
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What I learned from the Beastie Boys was to be independent. They set up their own world separate from the label. They built their own studio.
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I'm in awe of directors like the Coen brothers who can shoot their script and edit it, and that's the movie. They're not discovering the movie in postproduction. They're editing the script they shot.
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I would love to make video games.
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I knew I could write infinitely about relationships. That's the most beautiful, most confusing, most rewarding, most heartbreaking thing in our lives - and not just romantic relationships: that's all relationships.
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The world is becoming nicer and easier, but that doesn't mean we are any less lonely or any more connected.
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Moms are people, too. Moms make mistakes, too.
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I like Kanye, and I care about him.
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