American - Director | October 22, 1969 -
I've done a couple of interviews, and I realized how uncomfortable I felt as soon as I started talking.
Spike Jonze
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As a director, you never get to watch other directors work, and you also don't get to collaborate with other directors that much.
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I was only going to go to college because that's what I thought you were supposed to do.
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The best videos were the ones where I became friends with the artists first.
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I started directing videos at the same time that Michel Gondry was starting to direct videos, and I watched what he'd do. They all seemed to be pushing some new visual effects idea, but never just for spectacle. They all captured a feeling.
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I'm always inspired by other filmmakers, whether it's a shot or the way they handle tone.
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I feel like every movie, I've learned more and more about what I think of the world and what I'm trying to figure out.
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I think if something's emotionally real - and I'm not even talking about in movies or in art, but in life - you can't really argue with that, even if your intellectual mind might know differently.
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Me and my friends had BMX magazines and skate magazines, and I was a photographer who made skate videos.
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When I was 20 years old, I had no plans to ever be a filmmaker.
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After 'Where the Wild Things Are,' I guess I felt more confident as a writer.
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As creatives, it's a hard thing to push, to make something you're truly excited about, especially if you've written 100 different concepts and they keep getting shot down.
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