Spike Jonze

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

“I knew I could write infinitely about relationships. That's the most beautiful, most confusing, most rewarding, most heartbreaking thing in our lives - and not just romantic relationships: that's all relationships.”

“I've got to say, I've probably seen a lot more of the Three Stooges than of the Marx Brothers.”

“If I leave my phone in the car and go to dinner or something for a few hours, I'm very proud of myself.”

“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.”

“I think, as you're growing up, your emotions are just as deep as they are when you're an adult. You're ability to feel lonely, longing, confused or angry are just as deep. We don't feel things more as we get older.”

“I wasn't a film kid.”

“Be willing to get fired for a good idea.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I don't understand the whole testing-numbers thing. It is not how I want to make movies.”

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

“I skated and rode bikes on ramps, and my mom was always super supportive. She was one of the only divorced moms in the neighborhood, so all the other parents looked down upon her for letting her kids do that kind of thing.”

“Johnny Knoxville went from struggling to pay his rent to being on the cover of 'Rolling Stone' in the course of, like, a month.”

“Our subjectivity is so completely our own.”

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

“Movies, they take years of my life, so I'm fortunate that I get to work in a lot of different mediums.”

“I loved Fugazi, the D.C. hardcore band, because they always did everything themselves. They had their own label, and the CDs always cost nine dollars, the T-shirts always cost eight dollars, the shows always cost five dollars, no major label.”

“I've done the thing where I stop being communicative, and I've been on the other side where the other person isn't communicating, and I become frustrated.”

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