When I left Ohio when I was 17 and ended up in New York and realised that not all films had the… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If you make a film, that magic is not there, because you were there while shooting it. After writing a film and… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I like to rehearse with the actors scenes that are not in the script and will not be in the film because… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
Sometimes I make films about scenes other filmmakers would leave out, so I just make the film out of all the things… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
My films are about the little things that happen between people that are sometimes far more valuable and insightful than the big… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
I've always loved films, always. I studied literature and I went to Columbia in New York and I went to Paris for… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When I studied with Nicholas Ray he was always telling us, "If you want to make films, watch a lot of films,… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Music just gives me so much energy and inspiration. Music and literature in a way probably influence me more than cinema does… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
My films have sort of amateur elements, a naive quality, yet they have some sophisticated quality, sometimes the rhythm is kinda elegant. — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
Music, to me, is the most beautiful form, and I love film because film is very related to music. It moves by… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
What I did was I completed the half-hour film, but before really showing it, I wrote two more sections for a potential… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
You are the accumulations of your experiences at any given point. And when you express something those things come out. The thing… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
I have to tell everyone that when I finish a film and it goes out and is released, I never look at… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
Music, to me, is the most beautiful form, and I love film because film is very related to music. It moves by… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
I even think the commercial element of new American directors is really fertile right now. There are a lot of filmmakers with… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
I realized, "Gee, you're making the same film over and over here." I just kept making them for my own amusement, but also with… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
The beauty of ideas is that they are like waves in the ocean and they connect with things that came before them, and I… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
Nothing is original.. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems,… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
I didn't get the degree because in my last year, for my thesis film I made a feature called Permanent Vacation and they'd given… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
I prefer to be subcultural rather than mass-cultural. I'm not interested in hitting the vein of the mainstream. — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
Contradiction was something I really like when it is embraced in that kind of philosophy. — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
I like doing them and they're ridiculous and the actors can improvise a lot, and they don't have to be really realistic characters that… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
Cricket makes no sense to me. I find it beautiful to watch and I like that they break for tea. That is very cool,… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
I'm like a navigator and I try to encourage our collaboration and find the best way that will produce fruit. I like fruit. I… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
When I left Ohio when I was 17 and ended up in New York and realised that not all films had the giant crab… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
