Jim Jarmusch

It's a sad and beautiful world.

— Jim Jarmusch

Life has no plot, why must films or fiction?

— Jim Jarmusch

I consider myself a feminist, in a way.

— Jim Jarmusch

Stupid f***ing white man.

— Jim Jarmusch

I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way.

— Jim Jarmusch

I'm very interested in variations.

— Jim Jarmusch

I love silent films. The future is unwritten.

— Jim Jarmusch

I'm not overly analytical, and I don't set out to make something particularly.

— Jim Jarmusch

I started working with friends of mine and that, to some degree, continues.

— Jim Jarmusch

You can define everything as being political and analyze it politically.

— Jim Jarmusch

Everything is not laden with potential for drama in life.

— Jim Jarmusch

The beauty of life is in small details, not in big events.

— Jim Jarmusch

[Iggi Pop] is very self-taught, self-educated, but, man, that guy knows about so many things.

— Jim Jarmusch

Making a film that is in seven days of one week is not a new idea.

— Jim Jarmusch

No mistakes can be make during rehearsals, only progress toward what works best.

— Jim Jarmusch

I love John Ashbery. He's the - really the poet laureate of English language poetry, whether he's given that or not, he…

— Jim Jarmusch

Sometimes I make films about scenes other filmmakers would leave out, so I just make the film out of all the things…

— Jim Jarmusch

I didn't go to classes there, but ended up at the Cinematheque, and there it opened up even wider because there I…

— Jim Jarmusch

When I get depressed, or anything, I go 'think of all the music I haven't even heard yet!' So, it's the one…

— Jim Jarmusch

I'd wanted to be a writer and when I came back to New York worked as a musician too, but I found…

— Jim Jarmusch

I think of myself as an amateur filmmaker, not a professional, in the sense that "amateur" means love of something, for the…

— Jim Jarmusch

I always think the Sex Pistols and the Ramones as very, very important because they stripped things down.

— Jim Jarmusch

I know from the past, critics often say my films don't have any plot, that kind of thing. I'm used to being…

— Jim Jarmusch

I am interested in the non-dramatic moments in life. I'm not at all attracted to making films that are about drama. A…

— Jim Jarmusch

The Limits Of Control is not surrealism, but it is an experiment in which expectations are deliberately removed: expectations for narrative form,…

— Jim Jarmusch

The beauty of ideas is that they are like waves in the ocean and they connect with things that came before them,…

— Jim Jarmusch

If you go into a bar in most places in America and even say the word poetry, you'll probably get beaten up.…

— Jim Jarmusch

Those of us who make films try to make something that we're feeling and that we would like. Then we just hope…

— Jim Jarmusch

I like marginal characters, I like real people. I learn more from talking to my plumber when he comes to fix my…

— Jim Jarmusch

In Hollywood Westerns even in the Thirties and Forties, history was mythologized to accommodate some kind of moral code. And what really…

— Jim Jarmusch

Cricket makes no sense to me. I find it beautiful to watch and I like that they break for tea. That is…

— Jim Jarmusch

“Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings,…

— Jim Jarmusch

Music, to me, is the most beautiful form, and I love film because film is very related to music. It moves by…

— Jim Jarmusch

I even think the commercial element of new American directors is really fertile right now. There are a lot of filmmakers with…

— Jim Jarmusch

My first film I made, "Permanent Vacation," we shot in 1979 for like $12,000, part of which I got a fake car…

— Jim Jarmusch

I realized, "Gee, you're making the same film over and over here." I just kept making them for my own amusement, but…

— Jim Jarmusch

I went to graduate film school at NYU, and at first I didn't get a degree, because I took a scholarship that…

— Jim Jarmusch

It meant a kind of real liberation of expression. It embraced amateurism in a way that I still am inspired by. It…

— Jim Jarmusch

Nothing is original.. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings,…

— Jim Jarmusch

A lot of innovation in language comes from poetry.

— Jim Jarmusch