Quotes by Spike Jonze

Spike Jonze

As a parent, your perspective of childhood is through the eyes of this person that you care so much about and you just want the world to be great for them. You want their life to be easy and happy.

Childhood

Eye

Perspective

Be willing to get fired for a good idea.

Design

Ideas

Willing

Big emotions that are unexplained are really scary. At least to me.

Bigs

Emotion

Scary

Chris Cooper I got to work with many times.

Emotions are messy and hard to figure out.

Emotion

Figures

Messy

Even in this world where you’re getting everything you need and having this nice life, there’s still loneliness and longing and disconnection.

Loneliness

Needs

Nice

Finding a kid that could be introspective and internal and thoughtful, and then also be wild and free and guileless and physical, it was hard. So at the end we started getting down to panic time, and we still hadn’t found our Max. And we decided to go about it a different way. We said, “Let’s just find friends of ours that live in interesting cities in the country that maybe aren’t as big, and people that don’t do casting.” And thinking maybe you find a place that has an artistic community, maybe we’ll find some interesting kids from there.

Country

Kids

Thoughtful

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.

Character

Film

Trying

I definitely enjoy getting to know people I find inspiring.

Enjoy

Knows

People

I feel like you only have so much time to make stuff. I’m definitely aware of that. I’m also excited about it.

Excited

Like You

Stuff

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Age

Anxious

Bigs

Book

Car

Character

Childhood

Christmas

Coffee

Compromise

Confused

Connections

Country

Couple

Design

Drawing

Drink

Emotion

Enjoy

Enough

Excited

Eye

Feelings

Figures

Film

Fun

Growing Up

Ideas

Kids

Knows

Labels

Letting Go

Like You

Loneliness

Lonely

Lucky

Messy

Naps

Needs

Next Day

Next Week

Nice

Order

Past

People

Perspective

Phones

Proud

Reactions

Records

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Quotes by Spike Jonze

Spike Jonze

As a parent, your perspective of childhood is through the eyes of this person that you care so much about and you just want the world to be great for them. You want their life to be easy and happy.

Be willing to get fired for a good idea.

Big emotions that are unexplained are really scary. At least to me.

Chris Cooper I got to work with many times.

Emotions are messy and hard to figure out.

Even in this world where you’re getting everything you need and having this nice life, there’s still loneliness and longing and disconnection.

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.

I definitely enjoy getting to know people I find inspiring.

I feel like you only have so much time to make stuff. I’m definitely aware of that. I’m also excited about it.

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