Spike Jonze Quotes

It's fun when you start a movie, because it's kind of like you get to go Christmas shopping... you get to make your wish list and you start thinking about what each character needs.

Spike Jonze

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CharacterFunShoppingStartWish

Sometimes as an artist you get wrapped up in what you are doing and you can't be objective.

Joe Nichols

DoingYouArtistSometimesUpGet

Fame is a by-product which you have to deal with in a sensible way. To believe that it is anything more significant than that is deeply self-deceptive.

Jodhi May

BelieveYouFameWayMoreAnything

All holidays can be good times.

John Clayton

GoodGood TimesHolidaysTimes

On some level, acting is the art of pretend, and you have to have a highly cultivated sense of imagination. You have to be able to see things that aren't there, no matter what aspect of acting, whether it's green screen, whether it's on stage, whether it's anything else, whether you're working on the radio.

Stephen Lang

ArtImaginationGreenYouActing

I love stories that exist in this amped-up, personal world - sort of like 'Pee-wee's Big Holiday,' actually. That world really only exists inside that movie, but what a wonderful little world it is.

Stephanie Beatriz

LoveWorldHolidayPersonalInside

I think I was never home when I was directing, because you're either prepping, shooting, or editing, and then acting at the same time. It's really time-consuming, but it was great fun.

Miguel Ferrer

HomeGreatTimeFunThinkActing

I've never liked watching real-life couples play couples onscreen or onstage. It takes me out of the story.

Antonio Banderas

MeStoryPlayNeverWatchingOut

If you're a serious publisher, you publish books because they work. In other words, they are written well; the reader identifies with the characters. The context seems to be real whether he's writing about the French Revolution or the failure of Lehman Brothers.

Peter Mayer

WorkFailureWordsWritingYouReal

The theme for me is love and the lack of it. We all want that and we don't know how to get it, and everything we do is some kind of attempt to capture it for ourselves.

Ryan Gosling

LoveMeKnowWantKindCapture

There's a difference between the parts that I play and who I am and who people think I am. There's quite a big discrepancy sometimes between those things.

Martin Freeman

I AmPeopleThinkPlaySometimes

The truth is, I do some of my best writing at 3 A.M. while blasting 'Every Time I Die' into my ear drums.

Mark Manson

TruthTimeBestWritingTruth Is

I'm like the youth's big brother now. I have to be that voice for them.

Lil Yachty

BrotherYouthVoiceNowBigLike

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