I realized, "Gee, you're making the same film over and over here." I just kept making them for my own amusement, but… — 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,… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
I think we need to sort of broaden our definition of poetry, which maybe it's a good thing that they just gave… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say is very obvious from the lack of… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
When I get depressed, or anything, I go 'think of all the music I haven't even heard yet!' So, it's the one… — 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 like repetition, but I really, really like variations, synchronistic things that happen where you're not really thinking about them. — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
I like to work with actors that have varied experiences. But I don't choose them because of their experience, I choose them… — 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
I always think the Sex Pistols and the Ramones as very, very important because they stripped things down. — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in stories. Stories are interesting but I don't think my head works that way. I remember at age 10… — 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
I think of myself as an amateur filmmaker, not a professional, in the sense that "amateur" means love of something, for the… — 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
Music, to me, is the most beautiful form, and I love film because film is very related to music. It moves by… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
I don't like American football. I think it's boring and ridiculous and predictable. But baseball is very beautiful. It's played on a… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
I even think the commercial element of new American directors is really fertile right now. There are a lot of filmmakers with… — 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
