Spike Jonze Quotes

I want to direct, I want to be part of something creative, something with quality.

I think of making a movie in such a romantic way.

More often than not, the experience of shooting the movie has been disappointing and the end product has been a mere shadow of what I hoped it would be. But immersing myself in the story - that's what I like best of all.

I've been directing more and more the last few years, I find it an enjoyable challenge.

When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.

I don't actually sit down and write, but I just have a lot of different ideas about films and making movies.

I love making movies.

I like acting, but I like filmmaking better. I went to film school. I want to make films.

I think my passion for cinema really started when I was on the set of 'Mud' and my third film 'Joe.' That's when I really started to fall in love with the art of filmmaking.

You can't just express yourself and it becomes a movie. You have to get beyond that.

If you have skills to pull off even a four-hour film, people will go and watch it.

A movie is very different when you're writing the script and you're building a story compared to what the final product is.

I really wish it would only take two hours to make a two-hour movie.

Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judged on money.

As a director, you try to find what is creative.

I'd love to direct, I'd love to produce. I'd love to learn all about it, and being around it all the time certainly helps.

With me, I probably work a lot more than people assume I do, but people don't realize how much work goes into writing and producing and making a movie.

It's a juggernaut, yeah... but I'm not phased by making movies.

I enjoy looking at words on paper and visualizing how to make them come to life. As a director, the creative process is really amazing.

Everybody is always trying to make the best movie they can. It's a process.

Making movies is difficult and you get disorientated sometimes - even when you're working with fantastic talent.

The time it would take me to write a screenplay it would take me the time to make two films. I would rather make the movies, and I'm a better moviemaker than I would be writer.

One day I had an idea for a movie. Everything came after that.

I think you should make movies as long as the story dictates.

Making a movie is a lot of problem solving.