Spike Jonze Quotes

My lyrics come from my experiences growing up in life, trying to find out and express who I am. That's basically it. I'm not trying to be a prophet or anything like that. I'm just reflecting on life.

Each film has taught me something new - be it about myself, my craft, my profession, people.

I draw inspiration from everything I've seen and been through. My life has been my biggest teacher.

A student of life considers the world a classroom.

You try things on in life. You wear them for a while, and you see what's next.

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

The older you get the more you understand what you're doing.

Writing is how I find out what I believe and what I care most deeply about. It's how I sort through the mess of daily experience and try to make sense of it - by stepping out of it for a while. Writing is how I train a searchlight into the darker corners of my self and the world, as I'm sure I'd never do otherwise.

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Life is half spent before we know what it is.

Sometimes it's the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination.

I've become a lot wiser over the years.

Sometimes innocence is a good thing but I think life, experiencing different situations, different clubs, gives you a lot of knowledge.

Every year you learn as a person, about yourself, what works for you and what doesn't.

I've seen a lot of things and I've experienced a lot of things.

I had to have experience, you know what I mean? Because I've been doing this since I was 14... I couldn't write about anything at 14. I had to live some life. I definitely lived some life.

I felt like I had experienced a lot of things in the first chapter of my life, and I wanted it to inspire and motivate people, so I just started writing.

I think writing is really about a journey of understanding. So you take something that seems very far away, and the more you write about it, the more you travel into it, and you see it from within.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

The existence is a tremendous curiosity, with in the course of the years, the discovery of yourself in your inmost evolutions. With the age you feel better than you are, what you represent. Which means a little at the planet's scale.

The more I see and know about life, the more ideas I have and the more I want to make art.

Lyrically, I think I'm frustrated with this whole process of trying to figure out what I believe about the world and life. I don't like to adopt a sort of guiding philosophy.

You gotta live life before you can talk about it. Sometimes when things don't work out in life, they work out on stage.

Sometimes in the world, there's such pressure to follow a certain path that we forget the importance of learning as we go.

I used to think, 'How can I write my life story? I'm still living it.'