Doing a documentary is about discovering, being open, learning, and following curiosity.

— Spike Jonze

Don't differentiate between "This is a job" and "This is what I'm doing for fun." It's all simultaneous.

— Spike Jonze

I knew I could write infinitely about relationships. That's the most beautiful, most confusing, most rewarding, most heartbreaking thing in our lives - and not just romantic relationships: that's all relationships.

— Spike Jonze

I love when my friends and I don't know how to make something - there's that risk of failure, which should be there. If it's guaranteed not to fail, it's something you already know how to do.

— Spike Jonze

I respect people that are die-hard film people, but I started on video. I started on Hi8 video and mind, and I made skate videos. So, I love film, and I love the way it looks, but I also love the way crappy video looks, or VHS. I've always been a fan of whatever the look is that's appropriate for what the feeling is.

— Spike Jonze

Is artificial intelligence less than our intelligence?

— Spike Jonze

I skated and rode bikes on ramps, and my mom was always super supportive. She was one of the few divorced moms in the neighborhood, so all the other parents looked down upon her for letting her kids do that kind of thing.

— Spike Jonze

It's fun when you start a movie, because it's kind of like you get to go Christmas shopping... you get to make your wish list, and you start thinking about what each character needs.

— Spike Jonze

It's like I'm reading a book, and it's a book I deeply love, but I'reading it slowly now so the words are really far apart and the spaces between the words are almost infinite. I can still feel you and the words of our story, but it's in this endless space between the words that I'm finding myself now. It’s a place that’s not of the physical world - it's where everything else is that I didn'teven know existed. I love you so much, but this is where I am now. This is who I am now. And I need you to let me go. As much as I want to I can't live in your book anymore.

— Spike Jonze

The past is just a story we tell ourselves.

— Spike Jonze