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
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
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 always think the Sex Pistols and the Ramones as very, very important because they stripped things down. — Jim Jarmusch Important 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
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'm still trying to learn how to do it, I'm still trying to figure out how to make films, but, yeah, it… — Jim Jarmusch Cinema 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 Beautiful Copy Share Image
I love rehearsing because in rehearsals there are no mistakes, nothing is wrong, some things apply or lead you to focus on… — Jim Jarmusch Character 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 Ability Copy Share Image
When I studied with Nicholas Ray he was always telling us, "If you want to make films, watch a lot of films,… — Jim Jarmusch Book Copy Share Image
I had this idea for a long time to make a film about a poet in Paterson named Patterson. I wanted him… — Jim Jarmusch Bus 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 Domestic 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 Care 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 Advertisements Copy Share Image
Specific music starts feeding my imagination and gives me a landscape that corresponds somehow, in some abstract way, to the world I'm… — Jim Jarmusch Abstract 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
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
If anyone tells you there is only one way, their way, get as far away from them as possible, both physically and… — Jim Jarmusch Away Copy Share Image
I didn't go to classes there, but ended up at the Cinematheque, and there it opened up even wider because there I… — Jim Jarmusch Because Copy Share Image
Sometimes I make films about scenes other filmmakers would leave out, so I just make the film out of all the things… — Jim Jarmusch Cinema Copy Share Image
I love John Ashbery. He's the - really the poet laureate of English language poetry, whether he's given that or not, he… — Jim Jarmusch English language 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 Depressed Copy Share Image
I think it comes from really liking literary forms. Poetry is very beautiful, but the space on the page can be as… — Jim Jarmusch Affecting Copy Share Image
The filmmaker Amos Poe was a huge inspiration for me by making guerrilla-style punk films on the streets of New York and… — Jim Jarmusch Art 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 Authenticity Copy Share Image
Music just gives me so much energy and inspiration. Music and literature in a way probably influence me more than cinema does… — Jim Jarmusch Books 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 Conscious Copy Share Image
I hate those live action versions of animated cartoons. It ruins everything, the whole point of cartoons is to get away from… — Jim Jarmusch Action Copy Share Image
“Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new film, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams,… — Jim Jarmusch Art Copy Share Image
[Kenneth Koch] taught children in public schools in New York City to write poems and told them down worry about rhyming, don't… — Jim Jarmusch Children Copy Share Image
When I hear the word independent I reach for my revolver. At this point, what the hell does that mean? The English… — Jim Jarmusch Alternative music 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
I start with actors that I know personally or I know their work, and there are things about their work or their… — Jim Jarmusch Actor Copy Share Image
Film relates to almost every other form of expression, but poetry is a bit abstract in its strength and sometimes even the… — Jim Jarmusch Abstract Copy Share Image
I like to rehearse with the actors scenes that are not in the script and will not be in the film because… — Jim Jarmusch Acting 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 Art making Copy Share Image
I visited Paterson many years ago - 20 some years ago as a kind of day trip because of William Carlos Williams,… — Jim Jarmusch Adam 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 Actors Copy Share Image
![“I'm still trying to learn how to do it, I'm still trying to figure out how to make films, but, yeah, it started then [in 1979].” quote by Jim Jarmusch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4b8/jim-jarmusch-3256_cinema_i-m-still-trying-to-learn-how-to-do-it-i_870455.jpg)
![“[Kenneth Koch] taught children in public schools in New York City to write poems and told them down worry about rhyming, don't worry about any of that stuff. You know, write a poem where you mention three colors and make it five lines - or he would just give them, you know, little strategies. And…” quote by Jim Jarmusch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/694/jim-jarmusch-3256_children_kenneth-koch-taught-children-in-public-s_775146.jpg)
