Jim Jarmusch Quotes

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• I'd wanted to be a writer and when I came back to New York worked as a musician too, but I found my writing starting…
• Baseball is one of the most beautiful games. It is. It is a very Zen-like game.
• 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 diamond.
• It's a sad and beautiful world.
• Each one of us is a set of shifting molecules, spinning in ecstasy,
• Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture,…
• Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination  Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing…
• Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul.
• Jim Jarmusch: Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision.
• I didn't get my degree at NYU; I got it later, they gave me an honourary one.
• I'm like a navigator and I try to encourage our collaboration and find the best way that will produce fruit. I like fruit. I like…
• I've always loved films, always. I studied literature and I went to Columbia in New York and I went to Paris for part of one…
• If you go into a bar in most places in America and even say the word poetry, you'll probably get beaten up. But poetry is…
• When I get depressed, or anything, I go 'think of all the music I haven't even heard yet!' So, it's the one thing. Imagine the…
• The beauty of life is in small details, not in big events.
• Life has no plot, why must films or fiction?
• The beauty of ideas is that they are like waves in the ocean and they connect with things that came before them, and I think…
• Select only things to steal that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable;…
• I prefer to be subcultural rather than mass-cultural. I'm not interested in hitting the vein of the mainstream.
• It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.

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