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Film Quotes by Jim Jarmusch

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Improvised scenes can turn a film into something ridiculous and free, letting actors play beyond realistic tones. Jim Jarmusch describes the magic of being transported into a new world when you walk into a movie, and he notes how studio control can choke creativity on expensive projects.

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

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I love silent films. The future is unwritten.

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Life has no plot, why must films or fiction?

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

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

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

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My films have sort of amateur elements, a naive quality, yet they have some sophisticated quality, sometimes the rhythm is kinda elegant.

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I never start with the story first, which is maybe obvious, because the narrative line of my films is really not that…

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I've always loved films, always. I studied literature and I went to Columbia in New York and I went to Paris for…

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

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The beauty of a movie is that you walk in, you don't know anything about it, you enter a world that's new…

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I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say is very obvious from the lack of…

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

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

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

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

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

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The intention was to shoot short films that can exist as shorts independently, but when I put them all together, there are…

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I like all forms of movies. I'm a movie geek, so I watch all kinds of films, but - and I read…

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I like actors who just become that person and then react, and Adam [Driver] is completely reactive in that way. So every…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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I have to tell everyone that when I finish a film and it goes out and is released, I never look at…

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Some people would find just the rhythm of my films alone to be a nightmare; they'd probably just fall asleep because they…

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I like doing them and they're ridiculous and the actors can improvise a lot, and they don't have to be really realistic…

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When I hear the word independent I reach for my revolver. At this point, what the hell does that mean? The English…

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The filmmaker Amos Poe was a huge inspiration for me by making guerrilla-style punk films on the streets of New York and…

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When I studied with Nicholas Ray he was always telling us, "If you want to make films, watch a lot of films,…

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I had this idea for a long time to make a film about a poet in Paterson named Patterson. I wanted him…

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If you make a film, that magic is not there, because you were there while shooting it. After writing a film and…

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

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

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You are the accumulations of your experiences at any given point. And when you express something those things come out. The thing…

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What I did was I completed the half-hour film, but before really showing it, I wrote two more sections for a potential…

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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…

Everything is not laden with potential for drama in life.

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