The counterculture is always repackaged and made into a product. It's part of America. — Jim Jarmusch America Copy Share Image
America was built on an attempted genocide, anyway. Guns were completely necessary. — Jim Jarmusch Amendment Copy Share Image
No mistakes can be make during rehearsals, only progress toward what works best. — Jim Jarmusch Mistake Copy Share Image
It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going. — Jim Jarmusch Achieving goals Copy Share Image
Just write a poem as if you're writing a note to one other person. — Jim Jarmusch Ifs 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 Happens Copy Share Image
I always think the Sex Pistols and the Ramones as very, very important because they stripped things down. — Jim Jarmusch Important Copy Share Image
I know from the past, critics often say my films don't have any plot, that kind of thing. I'm used to being… — Jim Jarmusch Cinema Copy Share Image
I'd wanted to be a writer and when I came back to New York worked as a musician too, but I found… — Jim Jarmusch Cinema 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 Amateur Copy Share Image
A cult classic... both a celebration of the unlimited potential of the comic book form, and a perfect melding of inspiring, iconoclastic… — Jim Jarmusch Book Copy Share Image
Good acting is about reacting, not tryingto express something, but reacting to a situation as the character.I don't like acting acting. — Jim Jarmusch Acting 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
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
The Limits Of Control is not surrealism, but it is an experiment in which expectations are deliberately removed: expectations for narrative form,… — Jim Jarmusch Action 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
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 Age Copy Share Image
I like actors who just become that person and then react, and Adam [Driver] is completely reactive in that way. So every… — Jim Jarmusch Actors 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 Character Copy Share Image
It was a really interesting time in New York in the late 70s and early 80s, and the music scene was really,… — Jim Jarmusch 80s Copy Share Image
I still consider myself to be an amateur filmmaker. And I say that because in the Latin origin of the word amateur… — Jim Jarmusch Amateur Copy Share Image
Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. — Jim Jarmusch Art and creativity Copy Share Image
For me music is totally freeing, and it's its' own language too. You follow it, in a way. — Jim Jarmusch Freeing Copy Share Image
Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. — Jim Jarmusch Art and creativity Copy Share Image
Baseball is one of the most beautiful games. It is. It is a very Zen-like game. — Jim Jarmusch Baseball Copy Share Image
Contradiction was something I really like when it is embraced in that kind of philosophy. — Jim Jarmusch Contradiction Copy Share Image
Each one of us is a set of shifting molecules, spinning in ecstasy, — Jim Jarmusch Ecstasy Copy Share Image
Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision. — Jim Jarmusch Ahead Copy Share Image
I'm not into killing living things, you know, but I'll always have guns. — Jim Jarmusch Gun Copy Share Image
For me, the music is always like the small rowboat I get into at the very beginning of my process. — Jim Jarmusch Music Copy Share Image
I'm completely intuitive and I don't like to analyze things. — Jim Jarmusch Intuitive 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 Attitude Copy Share Image
Hopefully, if not it's not working right. I'm like a navigator and I try to encourage our collaboration and find the best… — Jim Jarmusch Bananas 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
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 American football 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
Select only things to steal that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic.… — Jim Jarmusch Art and creativity Copy Share Image