I find it very odd that the amendment about the right to bear arms, laws that were written so long ago, still… — Jim Jarmusch Amendments 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 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
My films have sort of amateur elements, a naive quality, yet they have some sophisticated quality, sometimes the rhythm is kinda elegant. — 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
What I did was I completed the half-hour film, but before really showing it, I wrote two more sections for a potential… — Jim Jarmusch Before Copy Share Image
You are the accumulations of your experiences at any given point. And when you express something those things come out. The thing… — Jim Jarmusch Cinema Copy Share Image
I'm not into killing living things, you know, but I'll always have guns. — Jim Jarmusch Gun Copy Share Image
I have to tell everyone that when I finish a film and it goes out and is released, I never look at… — 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 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
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
Domesticity is a fact of how social structure works. So if you say, "Well being domestic as a female is a negative… — Jim Jarmusch Domesticity 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 Cinema 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
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
I start with actors that I know personally or I know their work, and there are things about their work or their… — Jim Jarmusch Actors Copy Share Image
[Iggi Pop] is very self-taught, self-educated, but, man, that guy knows about so many things. — Jim Jarmusch Educated 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
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
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