Spike Jonze Quotes - Page 2

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

  Spike Jonze

  Scary, Emotion, Bigs

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• Music is thousands and thousands of years old and I don't think that basic, primitive connection to the language of music ever changes.

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  Thinking, Years, Connections

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• The fact that Maurice Sendak said, "This is something that I made at your age, this was something that was personal to me, and now you need to take it and make something that's personal to you." I don't know, but we made the Where The Wild Things Are movie that we set out to make, and Maurice loves it. If Maurice was anxious about it, then I would be petrified.

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  Age, Anxious, Wild Things

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think because I'm not a parent, my most immediate connection to childhood is my memory of my own childhood.

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  Memories, Thinking, Childhood

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• I like naps. I don't drink coffee.

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  Coffee, Naps, Drink

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• You have to be involved and relate to the characters in order to make a film that is true emotionally.

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  Character, Order, Film

  "Who's the proper Charlie?" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. February 8, 2003.

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

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  Numbers, Want, Testing

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• Chris Cooper I got to work with many times.

  Spike Jonze

  "Spike Jonze Talks About Working With Scarlett Johansson On ‘Her,’ Arcade Fire & Intellect Vs. Intuition". Interview with Rodrigo Perez, www.indiewire.com. December 19, 2013.

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• Where The Wild Things Are we were asking a lot of a 9-year-old kid. We were asking a lot of any actor.

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  Kids, Wild Things

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• When I first moved up to San Francisco to write Where The Wild Things Are, I had a couple moments where I talked to somebody, and they're like, "Oh, I love that book. I love this part of it," or, "This is what it means to me." And it's like, "Well, I don't know. I guess that's not what I'm making the movie about." But very early on, I don't know, we sort of let go of that fear.

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  Letting Go, Couple, Book

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I was lucky enough to know Maurice Sendak, and talked to him about doing the movie. For a while, I was really apprehensive of it, because Where The Wild Things Are is a book I love so much, and I didn't want to add something to it just to be able to make a movie, or put my stamp on it, or something like that.

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  Book, Lucky, Enough

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Felt is not the easiest thing to animate. It's very flimsy.

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  Felt

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• I feel like everything I make is personal to me.

  Spike Jonze

  Feels

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• I am better at math than spelling.

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  Math, Spelling

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• The invention of the iPod changes how you use music. Suddenly you have music everywhere.

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  Ipods, Use, Invention

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