To me, everything is endless variations on other things. Like waves in the ocean. They continue to turn over on each other,… — 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
Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t… — 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 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
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
If you have a counterculture band, you put a name on it, you call them beatniks, and you can sell something -… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
Consequently, I get inspiration from all over the place. But it's not like a calculated thing on my part, or a way… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
Now in the States if you look at the TV, you see the advertisements, the TV programmes, the pop videos, and the… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
Domesticity is a fact of how social structure works. So if you say, "Well being domestic as a female is a negative… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
Select only things to steal that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic.… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
America is a very venal place; everything has to be sold there. You can repackage your own s**t and sell it if… — 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
