I never start with the story first, which is maybe obvious, because the narrative line of my films is really not that… — 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
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
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
The beauty of a movie is that you walk in, you don't know anything about it, you enter a world that's new… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
Before she married my father, my mother was a film reviewer for The Akron Beacon Journal - a small newspaper. — 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
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
I like doing them and they're ridiculous and the actors can improvise a lot, and they don't have to be really realistic… — 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
Some people would find just the rhythm of my films alone to be a nightmare; they'd probably just fall asleep because they… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
The intention was to shoot short films that can exist as shorts independently, but when I put them all together, there are… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
I like all forms of movies. I'm a movie geek, so I watch all kinds of films, but - and I read… — 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 didn't get the degree because in my last year, for my thesis film I made a feature called Permanent Vacation and… — 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
Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams,… — 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… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
I like actors who just become that person and then react, and Adam [Driver] is completely reactive in that way. So every… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The Limits Of Control is not surrealism, but it is an experiment in which expectations are deliberately removed: expectations for narrative form,… — 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'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
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
I had this idea for a long time to make a film about a poet in Paterson named Patterson. I wanted him… — 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
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
The filmmaker Amos Poe was a huge inspiration for me by making guerrilla-style punk films on the streets of New York and… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
When I hear the word independent I reach for my revolver. At this point, what the hell does that mean? The English… — 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 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
Film relates to almost every other form of expression, but poetry is a bit abstract in its strength and sometimes even the… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say is very obvious from the lack of… — 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
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
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
![“I like actors who just become that person and then react, and Adam [Driver] is completely reactive in that way. So every day working with him was really a pleasure. And he's in almost every scene in the film, so the poor guy had to work the - almost the entire 30 days of our film shoot. But, yeah…” quote by Jim Jarmusch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/392/jim-jarmusch-3256_actors_i-like-actors-who-just-become-that-perso_2138212.jpg)
![“I'm still trying to learn how to do it, I'm still trying to figure out how to make films, but, yeah, it started then [in 1979].” quote by Jim Jarmusch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4b8/jim-jarmusch-3256_cinema_i-m-still-trying-to-learn-how-to-do-it-i_870455.jpg)
