![]() ![]() I guess it’s hard to … I don’t think there’s any secret. I mean, ah … from my perspective … I don’t know. Is there, in fact, anything you’re hiding? Is that intentional? Do you wear your secretiveness as a badge of honor?ĭo I wear … do I wear? I don’t know … I don’t know…. You’re getting a reputation for being a great filmmaker and a hellish interview. But I wasn’t sure if he’d be right for this character.This is how it goes trying to interview Spike Jonze by traditional methods, meaning I ask questions and he answers: I love him as an actor, he’s so alive, and I knew that in a movie where you’re watching one person onscreen essentially he would be really compelling. “Joaquin was my first choice, and at first I wasn’t sure if he was right for this character but I knew he’d be amazingly compelling to watch onscreen. “Helvetica’s the best! What other typeface can compete?” “I gotta say as a fan of Arcade Fire, it was pretty special to be working with them in their studio in Montreal, the way they wrote the music was very communal and we would all sit around and watch scenes and whoever had an idea would pick up an instrument and start playing it.” That seems like a particularly contemporary form of melancholy. So early on in design, KK Barrett (our production designer) and I decided that we weren’t going to worry about being futurists in any way in terms of technology and design, and let ourselves create a future design aesthetic that excited us and pleased us.” “…But you know, the ideas behind the design were that we were trying to create a world where everything felt warm, and comfortable, easy, accessible, but even in a world where you seemingly have everything you’d want, there’s still loneliness and longing and the need to connect. ![]() Thank you Seth for honoring us with your absurdity!” “I just saw it! Someone just sent it to me, actually Judd just sent it to me. Sarah Vowell loves Theodore Roosevelt and talks about him a lot.” And Theodore and his mustache came from Theodore Roosevelt. “The mustache and the name Theodore and the pants came from the idea that oftentimes fashion and naming children and style goes in cycles, and having elements from the 1920’s come back in style seemed like an interesting way to create the future. I asked him when we I asked him when we were in rehearsal how he liked to work and how he liked to be directed and he said, completely genuinely, “I want to work however you work.”‘ “You know what was wild about working with Nic on that movie, was that he just gave himself over completely. Have you seen his paintings ? 15 minutes would probably be enough though.” “I am curious what it would be like inside George W. The person whose head he would like to inhabit: And thank you for your thoughtful question.” And how that’s similar to how we don’t fully ever know how anyone exactly sees the world from their own subjective view, and the people we’re closest to have their own experience of the world that we’ll never truly know. And also, I was exploring the idea of how you don’t really know what exactly she is, and can Joaquin / Theodore give himself over to that. And we explore the complications of that. The obvious difference is that she doesn’t have a physical form. We tried to approach her as her own fully sentient and conscious being with her own sets of needs and insecurities and doubts as you were saying. “I think the way we approached in writing it and working on it with Joaquin and Scarlett was to not differentiate her feelings from our feelings. And wanting to share it with as many people in front of the movie theater as possible.” The inspiration for the “Praise You” music video: It’s really unique to see a company that big whose decisions are driven so creatively.” Who Framed Roger Rabbit, probably most of Pixar’s stuff, Pixar’s an amazing company, where creative really comes first. ![]()
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