Spike Jonze: Hollywood's Lonely Boy

The director hopes the high-tech love story of 'her' will make you cry

Dan Winters for TIME

Spike Jonze is earnest, calm, thoughtful, artistic, lonely, private and a bunch of other things that I don't want from a trickster. From the skate-punk photographer who pretended he was the leader of a group of awful local breakdancers, who co-produces the Jackass movies, who is the creative director of the gonzo-bro news brand Vice, who made the greatest music videos of all time, who was a brilliant actor in Three Kings before deciding he was too cool for acting, who directed the weirdness that is Being John Malkovich and Adaptation, who fought bitterly with his studio to turn Where the...

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