Latest Spike Jonze Quotes from Interviews

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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.

  Spike Jonze

  Age, Anxious, Wild Things

  Source: www.avclub.com

• 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.

  Spike Jonze

  Letting Go, Couple, Book

  Source: www.avclub.com

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

  Spike Jonze

  Kids, Wild Things

• 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.

  Spike Jonze

  Country, Kids, Thoughtful

  Source: www.avclub.com

• 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.

  Spike Jonze

  Book, Lucky, Enough

  Source: www.avclub.com

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

  Spike Jonze

  Phones, Car, Proud

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• The things that are really out of control, and scary, are emotions - of people around you, that are unpredictable, or those in yourself which are unpredictable.

  Spike Jonze

  People, Scary, Emotion

• What the world is like from a nine-year-old's point of view? My memory is that nothing is explained to you, you've got to try to figure it out, pick up clues from the people around you, try to figure it out from their reactions.

  Spike Jonze

  Memories, Views, Years