Feel Quotes

I like naps. I don't drink coffee.

Spike Jonze

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I am better at math than spelling.

Spike Jonze

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I like Kanye, and I care about him.

Spike Jonze

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On set, there's a lot of pressure. But it sort of heightens the moments.

Spike Jonze

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I feel like everything I make is personal to me.

Spike Jonze

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

Spike Jonze

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I'm always inspired by other filmmakers, whether it's a shot or the way they handle tone.

Spike Jonze

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Me and my friends had BMX magazines and skate magazines, and I was a photographer who made skate videos.

Spike Jonze

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The world is becoming nicer and easier, but that doesn't mean we are any less lonely or any more connected.

Spike Jonze

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I like hiring people based on a feeling - this person gets it - rather than what they've done in the past.

Spike Jonze

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As a director, you never get to watch other directors work, and you also don't get to collaborate with other directors that much.

Spike Jonze

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You can go on Nike's website and choose exactly what fabrics and colours and shapes you want your sneakers to come in.

Spike Jonze

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After 'Where The Wild Things Are,' which was this big, long five-year project, I spent a year making small things.

Spike Jonze

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Is an audience open to seeing a film that isn't what they expect when they see a film that's been adapted from a children's book?

Spike Jonze

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I think the thing that is meaningful is when I can tell that someone's been affected by the movie or by anything I made.

Spike Jonze

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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.

Spike Jonze

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I want to make films without a single clear message, and films that are as close as possible to what it feels like to be alive. At least to me.

Spike Jonze

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As creatives, it's a hard thing to push, to make something you're truly excited about, especially if you've written 100 different concepts and they keep getting shot down.

Spike Jonze

Tags: You About Make

I like people that define their own values. I am much more interested in somebody who has their own definition of what they value, their own definition of what success is, their own definition of what love is.

Spike Jonze

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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.

Spike Jonze

Tags: Mom Always Only

I started directing videos at the same time that Michel Gondry was starting to direct videos, and I watched what he'd do. They all seemed to be pushing some new visual effects idea, but never just for spectacle. They all captured a feeling.

Spike Jonze

Tags: Time Just Never

I think there is something about... unless you come from a really evolved family that allowed you to talk about your feelings and felt like a safe environment, then you aren't really prepared to do that when you grow up.

Spike Jonze

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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.

Spike Jonze

Tags: You Think Just

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.

Spike Jonze

Tags: You Because Out

The Beastie Boys are guys I loved before I met them, and when I got to know them, we started a magazine together, and we started making videos together, and a lot of it came out of us just cracking ourselves up, like going to the fake mustache store and buying fake mustaches.

Spike Jonze

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