Spike Jonze

Director
Screenwriter
Actor

“Being able to shoot on videos and commercials — just being on the set, with only a certain amount of time and shots and sequences to do in that amount of time, learning how to work with the crew the physical production and the limitations — is all good training.”

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SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK

CHARLIE KAUFMAN United States, 2008

Charlie Kaufman, the writing hand behind some of Spike Jonze’s most praised brain-teasers—Being John Malkovich, Adaptation—made his directing debut with this dreamlike, profound portrait of a creative mind in artistic crisis. Featuring a towering performance from the late Philip Seymour Hoffman!