Films Quotes by Jim Jarmusch

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

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

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

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

I prefer to be subcultural rather than mass-cultural. I'm not interested in hitting the vein of the mainstream.

— Jim Jarmusch

Contradiction was something I really like when it is embraced in that kind of philosophy.

— Jim Jarmusch

The beauty of life is in small details, not in big events.

— Jim Jarmusch

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

Everything is not laden with potential for drama in life.

— Jim Jarmusch

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

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

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

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

— Jim Jarmusch

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

— Jim Jarmusch

There is something very pleasurable about watching cartoons, a really warm, comfortable feeling. My taste is quite broad, but most of all I like…

— Jim Jarmusch