Quotes from Spike Jonze

I think the way Win Butler writes, I really identify with it. He writes very emotionally and very cinematically, and I just connect with his sensibility.

I worked at this bike shop called Rockville BMX, and I started going on this summer tour with this one company. One summer, we ended up in California, and I got to hang out with the guys who made 'Freestylin' - Andy Jenkins and Mark Lewman.

I definitely enjoy getting to know people I find inspiring.

Any conversation I have with anybody that's real is always revealing and inspiring.

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.

'Where The Wild Things Are,' I think I could have written on my own. When I brought Dave Eggers on, I already had 60 pages of notes. I technically could have, but I don't think I was ready to. I needed him to be there and help me.

Doing a documentary is about discovering, being open, learning, and following curiosity.

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.

The past is just a story we tell ourselves.

Falling in love is kind of like a form of socially acceptable insanity.

Sometimes I think I've felt everything I'm ever gonna feel and from here on out I'm not going to feel anything new - just lesser versions of what I've already felt.

It was exciting to see her grow - both of us grow and change together. But then, that's the hard part - growing without growing apart, or changing without it scaring the other person.

We're only here briefly. And while I'm here, I want to allow myself joy. So fuck it.

When you're talking about the idea of loving your ex, and being able to hold on to that amidst all the other feelings of being heartbroken or sad or missing something that's gone --something dies when a relationship ends. It is a death because that thing that was the two of you together was alive and now it won't be and the only two people who really knew that thing was alive are the two of you. No one else knows.

Getting to work on the thing that you're always thinking about anyways is like the biggest--that's the goal.

We'll take care for each other, and we'll all sleep together in a real pile.

Don't differentiate between "This is a job" and "This is what I'm doing for fun." It's all simultaneous.

A veces creo que ya he sentido todo lo que puedo sentir, y que a partir de ahora no sentiré nada nuevo... Sólo versiones menos intensas de lo que ya he sentido

Arcade Fire has such intimacy and epic-ness, at the same time, and that's really inspiring.

I definitely liked the Muppets. I definitely liked Yoda in 'Empire Strikes Back' and Chewbacca. I don't know if I was a fan of puppets or those, like, specific characters.

You make a movie that is about what you want it to be about and let people have their reaction to it.

I'm a little slow, so forgive me if I'm inarticulate.

I think the way kids create is so inspiring. They're drawing a picture? They love the picture they drew; they're not tortured about it.

I like Kanye, and I care about him.