Filmmaker Quotes by Jim Jarmusch

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I'm like a navigator and I try to encourage our collaboration and find the best way that will produce fruit. I like…

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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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I still consider myself to be an amateur filmmaker. And I say that because in the Latin origin of the word amateur…

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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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I think of myself as an amateur filmmaker, not a professional, in the sense that "amateur" means love of something, for the…

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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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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 this thought in my head that I could collect enough songs to make an album out of it. I am attracted to non-dramatic moments in life. The idea of a coffee break is not something you'd…

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The beauty of ideas is that they are like waves in the ocean and they connect with things that came before them, and I think it is very important to embrace things that interest you and influence you, and incorporate them into what you do, as all artists have always done. The ones that say they don’t, are lying. Or…

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Nothing is original.. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul.. If you do this, your work(and theft) will be…

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