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
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
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 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
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
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 Audience 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
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
I am interested in the non-dramatic moments in life. I'm not at all attracted to making films that are about drama. A… — Jim Jarmusch Abstract Copy Share Image
I wanted to make an Indian character who wasn't either a) the savage that must be eliminated, the force of nature that's… — Jim Jarmusch Block 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
America is a very venal place; everything has to be sold there. You can repackage your own s**t and sell it if… — Jim Jarmusch America 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 Accommodate 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 Character Copy Share Image