Movies, they take years of my life, so I'm fortunate that I get to work in a lot of different mediums.
Spike JonzeRead
I like people that define their own values. I am much more interested in somebody who has their own definition of what they value, their own definition of what success is, their own definition of what love is.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of personal values and individual definitions of success and love.
Spike Jonze highlights the significance of personal perspectives and self-defined values, suggesting that understanding one's own beliefs and definitions enhances individuality and authenticity. It advocates for a journey of introspection where each person should carve out their own path in life rather than conforming to societal expectations.
In practice
In a motivational speech about personal growth.
Movies, they take years of my life, so I'm fortunate that I get to work in a lot of different mediums.
If you compromise what you're trying to do just a little bit, you'll end up compromising a little more the next day or the next week, and when you lift your head you're suddenly really far away from where you're trying to go.
Whenever I start writing, I try to put together songs that feed the feeling of the movie.
I want to make films without a single clear message, and films that are as close as possible to what it feels like to be alive. At least to me.
I think if something's emotionally real - and I'm not even talking about in movies or in art, but in life - you can't really argue with that, even if your intellectual mind might know differently.
When I'm making stuff, the thing that excites me most is not the result, but the process and trying to do something I've never done before.
The Frenchman works until he can play. The American works until he can’t play; and then thanks the devil, his master, that he is donkey enough to die in harness. But the Englishman, as he has since become, works until he can pretend that he never worked at all.
For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most.
There are no moral or intellectual merits. Homer composed the Odyssey; if we postulate an infinite period of time, with infinite circumstances and changes, the impossible thing is not to compose the Odyssey, at least once.
Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.
We adults, our policies, our ways of governance, are responsible for poverty, not the children.
God has communicated to man, the infinite to the finite. The One who made man capable of language in the first place has communicated to man in language about both spiritual reality and physical reality, about the nature of God and the nature of man.
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