Spike Jonze Quotes

One creates oneself.

I get to define for myself what being a success is.

What does it mean to be an individual? What does it mean to flourish?

I want an identity outside of my work.

I love to reinvent myself, and that's because I am a very free person. I do what I feel, and I love who I am.

I love people that willfully defy what you're supposed to be and create their own definition of their selves.

Your sole contribution to the sum of things is yourself.

You choose who you want to be.

I have lived life enough to know that I define myself.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the limits one is born to, and then to learn something of the value of those limits.

Everybody eventually discovers that they are an individual with the power to affect their own lives and make it better or not.

I want the subject to be in control. Because they will give me something I couldn't possibly know about them.

I mean I am not Hilary Duff. Like I have my own path that I'm going to go on.

On some level, we as human beings can be who we want to be.

The true success is the person who invented himself.

I make me. At 18, I decided I wasn't going to have an unconstructed self ever. I was going to be the composer, the designer, the architect of me. It's been really fun.

I never let track define me. That's something that's really important to me.

Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well.

I want to be defined by my own essence.

You come to realize that only one person can tell you what's expected of you, and that's you.

What I wanted to do and what I needed to do was something entirely different, and through reading Roussel I learned that I could do what I wanted all on my own and that I didn't have to rely on what had actually happened in my somewhat limited life and reading.

Success is different for everyone; everybody defines it in their own way, and that's part of what we do in 'Close Up', finding what it was each person wanted to achieve and what their willingness to sacrifice for that was.

If you really have your own identity you'll keep on doing what you think is really right for you, and you'll also understand the next step you want to take.

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.