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Spike Jonze Quotes

When I'm making stuff, the thing that excites me most is not the result, but the process and trying to do something I've never done before.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: american
Birth: October 22, 1969

Topics

Me Process Trying Result Done Never

Try not to say, 'I'm a failure.' Instead, ask, 'What can I do better? What did I do wrong?' Then re-approach.

Jillian Michaels

Failure Better Wrong Say Try Ask

When I was growing up, I wasn't taught how to feel or communicate feelings.

Growing Up Feel Feelings Growing Up

Oracle was I had started it I guess two and a half years ago, maybe even longer than that, closer to three.

Robert Rauschenberg

Three Two Years Half Started Closer

If you look in general at people who live in anarchy, they have quite high rates of death from either homicide or warfare or both. Anarchy is one of the main reasons for violence, and it may be the most important.

Live Death People Violence You Look

Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.

Life Change Power Decision Past You

Science is very cross-generational; you're not just aiming it at twentysomethings, or eightysomethings. Every town's got a really broad selection of people and age groups interested in science.

Age Science People You Got Just

We should never forget that Americans continue to advocate for individual liberty, equality and self-governance. We often step in when it's necessary to help countries in need. But our history needs no whitewashing. To attempt this does us a terrible disservice.

History Step Equality Help Liberty

I don't write a whole lot about one person that exists in reality; it's usually characteristics of different people that I combine into a character. I tend to think through and try and make characters behave in a natural way. I follow the character and think about what they would do, what decisions they would make.

Character People Think Reality Way

I do like a lot of the '70s movies. I love Charles Bronson in 'Hard Times.' All my favorite movies where ones from yesteryear. The '70s was a good era. I love all those.

Love Good Movies Hard Hard Times

'Daredevil: Season One' is kind of in-between. On the one hand, sure, it's a graphic novel. But on the other, it's beholden to existing continuity, and we're still telling the story in issue-length chapters. So it's not that different to writing a miniseries, and I've done plenty of those.

Antony Johnston

Writing Story Done Kind Hand Sure

Torture can destroy the social fabric of communities, degrade a society's institutions, and undermine the integrity of its political systems.

Integrity Society Political Destroy

It is injurious to the mind as well as to the body to be always in one place and always surrounded by the same circumstances.

Richard Jefferies

Mind Body Place Circumstances Always

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