Spike Jonze Quotes

My work is has always been very, very personal.

I think if a character appeals to you, there are certain parts of yourself will come to the fore and other parts that will play down.

The best writing really does come from the deepest, most private part of you.

That's where it begins and ends for me and these songs were the ones that touched me the deepest. It was like I was laying hold of some part of me that I didn't even know was there until I let it out.

With every role that I do, I always see a little bit of me, a little bit of art and life.

I feel like my music at least allows me to release the other side of me, a more vulnerable and sensitive side.

All my collections are based on something I like or something I'm dealing with. They are always deeply personal.

I feel I'm all over my movies. I know my movies are all over me.

There's never been anything I didn't love that I didn't connect with on a personal level because, to some degree, I projected upon it.

If you're really being honest with yourself when you're acting, part of it is touching the real you. You can only separate yourself so much from the character. Those vulnerable moments do touch me.

A lot of people hurl themselves into relationships to lose themselves, but I think the best relationships help us to be more ourselves, to bring forth our best selves.

I'm not a super emotional person, so that's one reason I love acting - it makes me deal with myself in that kind of way.

But I always wanted my characters to be more than cyphers for the failings of their world. And I never had to look too hard to find a part of myself in them.

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

Everything I do is personal. I have never made a movie that didn't have very strong personal resonance.

I wrote lyrics that were intensely personal to me a few years ago. Maybe people know me better now.

If you meet me, you might not get to know me. If you hear my music? You'll get to know me.

Everything is a piece of me, a moment of my life.

You can't intellectually purge yourself of who you are. Whatever that is, it's going to come out in the wash, the film wash. What you are is going to be relevant, if not to yourself, to the movies you make.

My work is intensely personal.

Every song that I've done is me in one way or another.

I know that some people work differently, but I have to work from the inside out. It doesn't matter how big the character is, there has to be a truthful core.

I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It's a natural process.

With 'Girls,' I have been able to plug into almost everything I've felt that's personal and sensitive.

I reveal all of myself. I bring all of myself to my roles. You only see me. You don't see anything else but me. That is who's there. They're manifestations of my own self.