Spike Jonze Quotes

I'm not an exhibitionist. But, honestly, for my art I'll do anything almost. I'll go there.

When you're young, you're fearless and more creative, more of an outsider.

I want to work with performers who really are ready to lose their minds, you know? People who are established and have talent, but who are ready to break new ground and really be cracked open in a new way.

I'd love the opportunity to do something where I could really give my opinion, my feisty side - it'd be fun!

You have to have an unlimited imagination, an unlimited restraint on your inhibition when you're working. You have to even dare to fail, even in a scene, whatever it is.

For me, the key is years of the blessed filmmakers I've worked with giving me permission to be bold and jump off cliffs and to be boundaryless. I would put David Lynch at the top of that list.

I don't know what genre out there that I would be afraid to do. If I am afraid to do it, that's not my cup of tea. It ain't much that's not my cup of tea.

I keep a band of great young people around me, and we're not musically restrained. It's not about 'Let's do it correct' but 'Let's do it right.'

I've always loved action.

I'm happy to try everything at least once.

With Gaga - she's not afraid to take chances. You get these dynamic projects because of it. She's completely unafraid.

I'm willing to fail, my producers are willing to fail, my crew is willing to fail.

I love working with actors who will just go, 'Oh O.K., let's try it and see where it goes,' and 'Let's see what we can discover.'

Californian artists are kind of willing to push the limits a little bit further just because that's kind of our mentality in that state.

As long as it excites me, I am game for it.

I don't care about making a fool of myself at all.

I don't like to limit myself as an actress.

The album 'Cheers to the Fall' is really kind of me breaking out and being like, 'Listen, I don't care about criticism, and I don't care about possibility of failure. I'm going to do it. And if I do fail, well then, here's to it.'

For me, what matters is who are you working with, what you are working on, and when all that fits naturally, I let it go. Then, I don't care if it is bold or if it needs me to be uninhibited. I just want the role that I am playing to come out the way it should.

We turned Cambridge theatre upside down, using odd spaces and devising everything collaboratively. It eventually blew apart, but I'm still proud of some of what we achieved. The style was very disciplined, and we had the sense to keep things short.

I'm not going to restrict myself as an artist.

The longer I've done TV, the more fearless I've become. Fearless in what I say, in what I wear, what my hair looks like.

I love being the dude that does what no else is doing in the genre. It's exciting and terrifying at the same time.

I think, initially, working on your own is really great because it allows you to just be really free and not worry about how things are perceived or if people are going to think you're an idiot. And once that becomes ingrained, at least for me, I think I'll feel really comfortable to work with other people and still feel that same freedom.

I love the challenge of any adventure.