Spike Jonze

I'll still make movies for studios, but my editing process will be much further removed from the studio system. Because I don't understand it. I don't understand the whole testing-numbers thing. It is not how I want to make movies. So if that's how they do it, then I don't think I want to do it.

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.

I'm very nervous about taking jobs. I always make sure that, if I'm going to work with somebody, that they really understand what it is that I want to do. I'd rather not take the job than be vague about how I'm going to do something and run into trouble later on. It's a hard thing to negotiate.

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

Chris Cooper I got to work with many times.

Every actor I've worked with I want to work with again.

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.'

I feel like everything I make is personal to me.