SPIKE JONZE

‘He’s a giggly little liar,’ is what I had to say about Spike after relistening to our interview. 

Not wrong. Spike is a giggler and lied through most of this conversation, but really, we are all sort of liars in this industry, aren’t we? In all kinds of creative and narrative professions but especially in filmmaking, you have to be a bit of a shitty little fibber to be able to conceive of vivid, worthwhile stories and tell them with conviction and entertainment value. A well developed story teller is a well practiced liar, and among other things, Spike is both.

You’re probably wondering to yourself, ‘wait, which parts of this interview are lies? Did he not ride for Flip? Did he not win an Oscar? Can I not buy his DC Tour Jersey on eBay?’ No, those are all true. He didn’t fakie 360 flip Santa Monica triple set, but he did half cab flip it, and he won two Academy Awards. Or did he? It’s hard to tell. With a guy as talented as Spike Jonze, the things that are lies today may very well be cold hard truths tomorrow.

We’ve done a lot of things with Spike over the years, but haven’t ever had a real formal sit down; a fireside chat, so to speak, until now. We sat at our respective firesides - Spike with a small puppy on his lap and a mug o warm something in his hand - to discuss his strategies for scaring the absolute shit out of those foolish enough to buy a ticket to one of his films, the worst person he’s ever had to work with on set, and how it feels to be getting kicked off of Girl/Chocolate for lack of footage.