Word: spike
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...content myself with a frenzied conversation with all the luminaries involved with the film on the top floor of a New York high-rise hotel. Sometimes it was hard to tell them all apart; everyone who worked on the movie seemed to wear many proverbial hats. Plainspoken wunderkind director Spike Jonze is basking in the glow of his meaty supporting role acting in Three Kings. The producer Michael Stipe is also the frontman for R.E.M.--and, incidentally, likes to wear sparkly eyeshadow. Curlyheaded screenwriter Charlie Kaufman doubled as the executive producer of the film (and has a slew of strange...
...Spike Jonze, the director: Oh, we tried. We couldn't come up with anyone. I don't know what we would have done if John Malkovich did said no. Our list was empty...
...read. He said, "Oh, yes, there's one thing you have to read." He kind of sent it along. And at first, we expressed to Charlie that I myself would be interested in directing or producing it... if it wasn't about me. I suggested William Hurt. But Spike wouldn't change...
...remember thanking Charlie and Spike because I got to do a scene where I was sitting on a couch in a hovel with a monkey telling the monkey that I was an unappreciated artist. I did that looking straight into the monkey's eyes. All I could think was, "My god - this is as good as it gets. There's nothing that can compare to this...
...help us come up with our characters, Spike had taken pictures of random people with a long-lensed camera on the streets of New York. We pieced our characters together from these images, by asking, "Who's Lotte? Who's Craig? Who are these people?" It wasn't about snubbing anyone, or taking down looks, or just creating a shocking effect. We just to find the people whose stories we wanted to tell. That's acting, which is really...