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
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
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
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
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
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 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
