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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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" If you focus your energy on the camera, it takes away from the time you have to focus on the performances. "
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" There were times in 'Adaptation' during the editing where I really thought, 'Okay, well, this was a noble failure. I tried to do something good, but this is not going to work.' "
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" Felt is not the easiest thing to animate. It's very flimsy. "
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" It's fun when you start a movie, because it's kind of like you get to go Christmas shopping... you get to make your wish list and you start thinking about what each character needs. "
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" Writing is hard. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" I'm always amazed when any actor can decipher my direction. "
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" On everything I do I'm always taking someone's money, whether it's a movie studio or a record label. Somebody's paying for it, and I'm always respectful of that. But I'm never going to compromise. "
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" The strengths and failings of a relationship depend entirely on your ability to talk about your feelings. "
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" I'm always inspired by other filmmakers, whether it's a shot or the way they handle tone. "
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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. "
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" Obviously technology has become such a big presence in our lives and, I definitely know, in my life. "
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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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" I love people that willfully defy what you're supposed to be and create their own definition of their selves. "
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" Moms are people, too. Moms make mistakes, too. "
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" I respect people that are die-hard film people, but I started on video. I started on Hi8 video and mini-DV, and I made skate videos. So, I love film, and I love the way it looks, but I also love the way crappy video looks, or VHS. I've always been a fan of whatever the look is that's appropriate for what the feeling is. "
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" 'Where The Wild Things Are,' I think I could have written on my own. When I brought Dave Eggers on, I already had 60 pages of notes. I technically could have, but I don't think I was ready to. I needed him to be there and help me. "
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" Obviously, movies and music videos are different because they're different lengths, and in a movie, you have more time to explore an idea. But I feel like they're all the same, really. "
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" I wasn't a film kid. "
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" You make a movie that is about what you want it to be about and let people have their reaction to it. "
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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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" Me and my friends had BMX magazines and skate magazines, and I was a photographer who made skate videos. "
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" Our subjectivity is so completely our own. "
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" 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. "
Spike Jonze
" I like Kanye, and I care about him. "
Spike Jonze
" The best videos were the ones where I became friends with the artists first. "
Spike Jonze
" I've done a couple of interviews, and I realized how uncomfortable I felt as soon as I started talking. "
Spike Jonze
" I'm in awe of directors like the Coen brothers who can shoot their script and edit it, and that's the movie. They're not discovering the movie in postproduction. They're editing the script they shot. "
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" I never knew how to do anything before I did it, really. "
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