My films are about the little things that happen between people that are sometimes far more valuable and insightful than the big… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
I have a real respect for tobacco as a substance, and it just seems very funny how the Western attitude is, "Wow,… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
Some people would find just the rhythm of my films alone to be a nightmare; they'd probably just fall asleep because they… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
I think people should have the right to bear arms, but they should be limited as to what kinds of guns they… — 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
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
I'm not an analytical person, so it's not my job to even know what the hell the thing meant. It's not my… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
I love riding on a bus now because you're looking down on the world from not too high of an angle, but… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
I thought The Limits of Control could be interpreted in two ways: as the limits of one's self-control; and as the limits… — 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
In Hollywood Westerns even in the Thirties and Forties, history was mythologized to accommodate some kind of moral code. And what really… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
I like marginal characters, I like real people. I learn more from talking to my plumber when he comes to fix my… — 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
