Her spike jonze interview1/14/2024 ![]() They think of you as two separate people. That’s quite different from, I’ve spoken to people about films you’ve made, they don’t associate ‘this’ Spike Jonze with ‘this’ Spike Jonze. Moving on slightly, you’re associated with Jackass. Not everything in life is going to be fun, but you can still try and appreciate it in all its bloody mess. ‘Cause not everything is necessarily going to be fun but it can be rich. Yeah, have fun, or at least, whether it’s fun, enjoy the intensity. We were on this adventure together and trying to go intimate and deep together, but also… I think you get the impression from his work that he’s just like this intense, brooding guy, but he’s the biggest clown there is, so in that way he was also a joy to work with. Like, there’s not an air of pretension about him. I didn’t really know him and I wanted to talk to him about this movie and I went and met him, I realised that he’s somebody that takes his work really seriously but he doesn’t take himself seriously at all. And so, I think in that way, he’s intense, but intense in the best way, intense in the most beautifully sincere way. He’d tell you himself, he doesn’t know how to act. As opposed to other actors who are like, ‘Okay, I don’t get it but I’ll act it for you’, he doesn’t know how to act. If he’s not feeling something, it’s my responsibility as the director to help him figure out. Well, he’s intense in that he cares and that he can’t lie. He has a reputation as being quite intense. Usually there’s 15 feet of cement between the wall of the building and the swimming pool and you need to really push off, and you need that adrenaline to get that extra boost. Which you have to have, because if you jump off the building without adrenaline and are a little bit more casual about it, you not might clear all the cement that you need to clear. It’s like jumping off a hotel roof into a swimming pool. I think I realised that I need to have a real risk of failure and danger to get my adrenaline up. I think that’s what makes it exciting and makes it dangerous. You set challenges that most other people wouldn’t know how to approach, maybe? Not impossible, because that’s ridiculous. In our movies we create impossible challenges. You see everything happen.īut to me that’s exciting. You get to see their expressions shift and their eyes shift, their anxiety build or release. Now in a movie you’re suddenly forced to imagine one character when the other ones are so vividly portrayed, in flesh and skin. Like reading a book, you imagine all the characters. ![]() I think I realised that the script is almost deceptively easy to read because everybody is on the same level playing field. It was definitely the challenge of the movie, to believe that love story. I didn’t even think that people hate new operating systems. How difficult was it to make that believable? It must have been a huge challenge. A man falls in love with an operating system, which is difficult to believe because people hate new operating systems. ![]()
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