Spike Jonze Quotes

I envy children who know that they're going to become doctors, know they're going to go into the forces or whatever. I think choice is one of the hardest things, but that's what I try to give my children, to say you can do anything.

If you knew what you wanted to be when you were 6 years old - great! If you have no idea what you want to be, that's OK!

I was going to be a lawyer, and I had studied hard, but then it suddenly occurred to me in a very deep, profound way that I didn't want to keep practicing law for the rest of my life.

I don't think I would have made for a good doctor. It was not meant to be, and it took me a long time to realize that.

As a matter of fact, even when I finished law school, I had no notion of public service then.

I didn't expect to become an artist. I was not comfortable going out on the road.

I wanted to be a lawyer. Then a journalist. Actually, I graduated from university as a journalist.

I feel 100% sure that I have the career that I have today because of independent filmmaking.

I don't really know if I want to do acting as a career. I really don't know what I want to do yet.

It was easy for me to leave acting for school, because I wasn't really in it as an adolescent for fulfilling reasons.

I'm just focused on exploring new opportunities.

I certainly have opportunities many can only dream of - but in most ways I'm a typical girl in her 20s trying to forge a career and represent herself in what can sometimes seem rather strange circumstances. One of the most attractive has been the chance to publish 'Celebrate.'

I think, ultimately, looking back now, acting wasn't satisfying me 100%.

Although becoming a singer was my plan A after first hearing Whitney Houston when I was 17, I started off with plan B by going to the teacher-training college that my dad went to. It was a slow coming of age.

I am not surprised that they show no intention to follow in my footsteps, although if I had a second chance myself, I would certainly try to repeat my present career.

I know from experience that careers do not always arise from a deep sense of destiny.

The only reason my work seems to be eclectic up to a certain period is because I was a failure as an actor.

I would have gone to law school, or gotten a psychology degree. I wasn't interested in sleeping on a futon forever. And what happened is I walked into auditions, and I had nothing to lose, because I had a backup plan.

If you're successful at a young age, no matter the profession, there has to come a time when you reevaluate everything, what it means to you. 'Is this what I want to do for the rest of my life?'

I've always been sort of confused by the trajectory my life has taken. I was supposed to be on an assembly line building Buicks.

I don't know what would I do in future; I'll decide it later.

Growing up in Rhode Island, I dreamed of a career in law enforcement. That hasn't worked out exactly as I had planned, but life seldom does.

I spent the first 25 years of my life not knowing what I wanted to do.

As an academic, this was not the lifestyle I had planned for myself. Now I see myself everywhere.

I didn't plan to be a director until I was 35. For years I wanted to do anything but!