The difficult thing about working on a labor of love like “Where The Wild Things Are,” is that if the film goes on for four years — which the tumultuous and labored production of which certainly did — you don’t get paid more than you were originally scheduled to get paid.
So it sounds like, according to this interview at Vulture, that ‘Wild Things’ director Spike Jonze has either burned through his filmmakers fee already, or won’t get paid until the film is complete and is in theaters.
“I’ve been working on the same movie for four years and basically haven’t been paid anyway,” Jonze told the NYMag blog. “When you break down how much you’re making [over that time] … Yeah, it’s kind of crazy.”
Jonze sounds like he’s semi-broke (or at least celebrity/filmmaker “broke”) and he says that he’ll be returning to commercials to pay the bills. “But yeah, this year I should probably get back to work on other stuff, and start making money again.I haven’t made money in a long time.”
Don’t expect many music videos though. “No way, I don’t think so. There are no budgets at all. We support ourselves with commercials. That’s how I make money.”
However, he has made one more music video for buddy Kanye West, which he calls a “short film” (visions of Michael Jackson, John Landis/Martin Scorsese videos start to pop in our head). Jonze already directed a West a disturbing video for “Flashing Lights,” so which one will he tackle from 808s & Heartbreak. According to an AP interview, the short film music video will be for the track “See You In My Nightmares”
Here’s the song, but not the video — this is fan made.