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 Albums 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 Art 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,… — Jim Jarmusch Authenticity 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… — Jim Jarmusch Degrees 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 Hitting Copy Share Image
Contradiction was something I really like when it is embraced in that kind of philosophy. — Jim Jarmusch Contradiction 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… — Jim Jarmusch Actor 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… — Jim Jarmusch Beautiful 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… — Jim Jarmusch Bananas 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… — Jim Jarmusch Cinema Copy Share Image
The beauty of a movie is that you walk in, you don't know anything about it, you enter a world that's new… — Jim Jarmusch Beauty Copy Share Image
Before she married my father, my mother was a film reviewer for The Akron Beacon Journal - a small newspaper. — Jim Jarmusch Beacons Copy Share Image
There is something very pleasurable about watching cartoons, a really warm, comfortable feeling. My taste is quite broad, but most of all… — Jim Jarmusch 80s Copy Share Image
If anyone tells you there is only one way, their way, get as far away from them as possible, both physically and… — Jim Jarmusch Far away Copy Share Image
I went to graduate film school at NYU, and at first I didn't get a degree, because I took a scholarship that… — Jim Jarmusch Degrees Copy Share Image
I didn't get my degree at NYU; I got it later, they gave me an honourary one. — Jim Jarmusch Degrees 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 Dream Copy Share Image
Separate two particles, place them at opposite ends of the universe, produce some effect in one, and the other will be identically… — Jim Jarmusch Affected Copy Share Image
To me, everything is endless variations on other things. Like waves in the ocean. They continue to turn over on each other,… — Jim Jarmusch Branches Copy Share Image
If you go into a bar in most places in America and even say the word poetry, you'll probably get beaten up.… — Jim Jarmusch America Copy Share Image
In the words of the ancients, one should make his decision within the space of seven breaths. It is a matter of… — Jim Jarmusch Break Copy Share Image
My first film I made, "Permanent Vacation," we shot in 1979 for like $12,000, part of which I got a fake car… — Jim Jarmusch Car 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 Bob Copy Share Image
