Jim Jarmusch

America was built on an attempted genocide, anyway. Guns were completely necessary.

— Jim Jarmusch

The counterculture is always repackaged and made into a product. It's part of America.

— Jim Jarmusch

I didn't get my degree at NYU; I got it later, they gave me an honourary one.

— Jim Jarmusch

I love variation in all forms: in painting, in music.

— Jim Jarmusch

The New York School poets are my godfathers creatively.

— Jim Jarmusch

Just write a poem as if you're writing a note to one other person.

— Jim Jarmusch

It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.

— Jim Jarmusch

I think you can only be nostalgic for something you've lost.

— Jim Jarmusch

I like repetition, but I really, really like variations, synchronistic things that happen where you're not really thinking about them.

— Jim Jarmusch

If anyone tells you there is only one way, their way, get as far away from them as possible, both physically and…

— Jim Jarmusch

Specific music starts feeding my imagination and gives me a landscape that corresponds somehow, in some abstract way, to the world I'm…

— Jim Jarmusch

When I left Ohio when I was 17 and ended up in New York and realised that not all films had the…

— Jim Jarmusch

I'm still trying to learn how to do it, I'm still trying to figure out how to make films, but, yeah, it…

— Jim Jarmusch

In the words of the ancients, one should make his decision within the space of seven breaths. It is a matter of…

— Jim Jarmusch

Separate two particles, place them at opposite ends of the universe, produce some effect in one, and the other will be identically…

— Jim Jarmusch

My films are about the little things that happen between people that are sometimes far more valuable and insightful than the big…

— Jim Jarmusch

America is a very venal place; everything has to be sold there. You can repackage your own s**t and sell it if…

— Jim Jarmusch

I wanted to make an Indian character who wasn't either a) the savage that must be eliminated, the force of nature that's…

— Jim Jarmusch

I visited Paterson many years ago - 20 some years ago as a kind of day trip because of William Carlos Williams,…

— Jim Jarmusch

As soon as you start making a film that's expensive then the studio wants total control over all elements of it because…

— Jim Jarmusch

I like to rehearse with the actors scenes that are not in the script and will not be in the film because…

— Jim Jarmusch

I like to work with actors that have varied experiences. But I don't choose them because of their experience, I choose them…

— Jim Jarmusch

Film relates to almost every other form of expression, but poetry is a bit abstract in its strength and sometimes even the…

— Jim Jarmusch

I start with actors that I know personally or I know their work, and there are things about their work or their…

— Jim Jarmusch

I'm completely intuitive and I don't like to analyze things.

— Jim Jarmusch

For me, the music is always like the small rowboat I get into at the very beginning of my process.

— Jim Jarmusch

I'm not into killing living things, you know, but I'll always have guns.

— Jim Jarmusch

Contradiction was something I really like when it is embraced in that kind of philosophy.

— Jim Jarmusch

Each one of us is a set of shifting molecules, spinning in ecstasy,

— Jim Jarmusch

Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision.

— Jim Jarmusch

Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul.

— Jim Jarmusch

For me music is totally freeing, and it's its' own language too. You follow it, in a way.

— Jim Jarmusch

Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination.

— Jim Jarmusch

Baseball is one of the most beautiful games. It is. It is a very Zen-like game.

— Jim Jarmusch

I didn't get the degree because in my last year, for my thesis film I made a feature called Permanent Vacation and…

— Jim Jarmusch

Select only things to steal that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic.…

— Jim Jarmusch

Hopefully, if not it's not working right. I'm like a navigator and I try to encourage our collaboration and find the best…

— Jim Jarmusch

I don't like American football. I think it's boring and ridiculous and predictable. But baseball is very beautiful. It's played on a…

— Jim Jarmusch

Before she married my father, my mother was a film reviewer for The Akron Beacon Journal - a small newspaper.

— Jim Jarmusch

A cult classic... both a celebration of the unlimited potential of the comic book form, and a perfect melding of inspiring, iconoclastic…

— Jim Jarmusch