Spike Jonze > Quotes

“The past is just a story we tell ourselves.”
― Spike Jonze, her

“Falling in love is kind of like a form of socially acceptable insanity.”
― Spike Jonze, her

“Sometimes I think I've felt everything I'm ever gonna feel and from here on out I'm not going to feel anything new - just lesser versions of what I've already felt.”
― Spike Jonze, her

“It was exciting to see her grow -
both of us grow and change together. But then, that's the hard part - growing without growing apart, or changing without it scaring the other person.”
― Spike Jonze, her

“We're only here briefly. And while I'm here, I want to allow myself joy. So fuck it.”
― Spike Jonze

“When you're talking about the idea of loving your ex, and being able to hold on to that amidst all the other feelings of being heartbroken or sad or missing something that's gone --something dies when a relationship ends. It is a death because that thing that was the two of you together was alive and now it won't be and the only two people who really knew that thing was alive are the two of you. No one else knows.”
― Spike Jonze

“Getting to work on the thing that you're always thinking about anyways is like the biggest--that's the goal.”
― 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

“We'll take care for each other, and we'll all sleep together in a real pile.”
― Spike Jonze, Where The Wild Things Are

“Es como si estuviera leyendo un libro y es un libro que amo profundamente. Pero ahora lo leo muy lentamente así que las palabras están muy separadas y el espacio entre palabras es casi infinito. Aún puedo sentirte a ti y a las palabras de nuestra historia. Pero es en este espacio infinito entre las palabras que me estoy encontrando a mi misma. Es un lugar que no existe en el plano físco. Es donde está todo lo demás que ni siquiera sabía que existía. Te amo tanto. Pero aquí es donde me encuentro ahora. Esta es quien soy ahora. Y necesito que me dejes ir. Sin importar cuanto lo quiera, ya no puedo vivir en tu libro.”
― Spike Jonze, her

“Is artificial intelligence less than our intelligence?”
― Spike Jonze

“A veces creo que ya he sentido todo lo que puedo sentir, y que a partir de ahora no sentiré nada nuevo... Sólo versiones menos intensas de lo que ya he sentido”
― Spike Jonze, her