Spike Jonze Trying Quotations

If you compromise what you're trying to do just a little bit, you'll end up compromising a little more the next day or the next week, and when you lift your head you're suddenly really far away from where you're trying to go.

I don't know what life was like 1,000 years ago, but I imagine there was the same struggle: people trying to connect with each other.

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.

Emotions are messy and hard to figure out. Hard to know where you start and the next person stops. Even as an adult, that's a hard thing to know. As a kid, it can be really confusing, because it's all new and you're trying to sort of make your map.

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 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.