Spike Jonze

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 wasn't a film kid.

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.

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.

A great poem leaves so much room for everybody to have such a different reaction to it.

I'm fortunately not, like, typecast. I don't have to just do one kind of thing; I can do all kinds of things that reflect different parts of me.

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.

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.

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.

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

There's great food everywhere, and even McDonald's uses nice wood now.

There's a difference between stress and pressure.