Spike Jonze Quotes

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Most of us fall in love with someone's persona and spend the next three to five years discovering who that person really is. If you can stay connected through that process of raw vulnerability, I think you have a shot at the prize of knowing and accepting another human being for who and what they really are after years of highs and lows.

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

I guess a lot of things I make are relationship movies. Maybe all movies are relationship movies, because they're all about how we relate to each other.

Even if it's a thriller or a comedy, it's always a love story for me, and that's what I concentrate on, because the love stories are my surrogates for the argument: two people in conflict that see life differently.

Any time you have intimacy with someone, there is something between them.

I think that sometimes we open our hearts a little more easily to animals than we do to each other.

You never know where someone else is coming from. Even within best friendships or within mother- daughter relationships, you never fully know what's behind someone's eyes.

I don't think the idea of being seen changes in its importance. I think it's always true. When relationships start to have problems, it's almost always because we don't feel seen by that person anymore.

I find myself consistently drawn to writing about intimacy and the way we construct one another.

In our opposed forms of loneliness and self-recognition and recognition of the other, we touched each other often as we spoke; and on shore in explorations of the past, we strolled with our arms linked.

He knew one of the women well, and had shared his universe with her. They had seen the same mountains, and the same trees, although each of them had seem them differently. She knew his weaknesses, his moments of hatred, of despair. Yet she was there at his side. They shared the same universe.

You can never know anyone as completely as you want. But that’s okay, love is better.

We're all amateurs when it comes to love. Don't be too hard on each other.

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

I think the negative traits are what makes us love other human beings, the foibles and the flaws.

In a relationship when things are really great you don't need to say anything and just enjoy the other person. Sometimes with a couple, it gets dark and you don't know what to say and that silence can last all day. Other times you don't want to stop talking because you don't want to lose one another.

Part of the fun of life is interacting with people and not knowing what the truth is inside. Letting them reveal that to you is what binds you to people.

I think that talking about the personal specificity, personal details, is how you get the big, big audiences - by talking about your relationships or your personal tragedies. If you reach out with that energy, you'll touch people.

Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it.

Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws.

I think invariably when you are dealing with relationships, the films really center on that, and the plot is really born out of that. That's the most core part of a relationship: intimacy, I think, whether it's expressed or not.

To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.

Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It's the magic sauce.

Trouble is part of your life - if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.