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Film director

Jim Jarmusch, born on January 22, 1953, is a renowned American film director. His works are known for their unique style and profound themes, and he is considered one of the representatives of independent cinema.

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“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, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic.”

“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 your thievery - celebrate it if you feel like it.”

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“Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul.”

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“Jim Jarmusch: Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision.”

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“I didn't get my degree at NYU; I got it later, they gave me an honourary one.”

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“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 cherries, I like bananas.”

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“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 year and ended up staying there.”

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“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 a really strong, beautiful form to me, and a lot of innovation in language comes from poetry.”

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“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 world without music. Man, just hand me a gun, will you?”

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“The beauty of life is in small details, not in big events.”

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“Life has no plot, why must films or fiction?”

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“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 it is very important to embrace things that interest you and influence you, and incorporate them into what you do, as all artists have always done. The ones that say they don’t, are lying. Or are afraid that their work won’t be seen as being original, somehow.”

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“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; originality is nonexistent”

“I prefer to be subcultural rather than mass-cultural. I'm not interested in hitting the vein of the mainstream.”

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“It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.”

“Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination.”

“A cult classic... both a celebration of the unlimited potential of the comic book form, and a perfect melding of inspiring, iconoclastic imaginations.”

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“Before she married my father, my mother was a film reviewer for The Akron Beacon Journal - a small newspaper.”

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“I always think the Sex Pistols and the Ramones as very, very important because they stripped things down.”

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“I didn't get the degree because in my last year, for my thesis film I made a feature called Permanent Vacation and they'd given me a scholarship, the Louis B Mayer fellowship and they made a mistake.”

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“I have to tell everyone that when I finish a film and it goes out and is released, I never look at my films again. I don't like looking back. I don't even like talking about 'em! So I'm really digging back in my memory because I don't like to sit and look at my films again.”

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“I start with actors that I know personally or I know their work, and there are things about their work or their presence or their own personality that make a character, that exaggerates some qualities and suppresses other qualities. It's always a real collaboration for me.”

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“I started working with friends of mine and that, to some degree, continues.”

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“I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way.”

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“I wanted to make an Indian character who wasn't either a) the savage that must be eliminated, the force of nature that's blocking the way for industrial progress, or b) the noble innocent that knows all and is another cliche. I wanted him to be a complicated human being.”

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“It was a really interesting time in New York in the late 70s and early 80s, and the music scene was really, really interesting because you didn't have to be a virtuoso to make music, it was more about your desire to express things.”

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“When I left Ohio when I was 17 and ended up in New York and realised that not all films had the giant crab monsters in them, it really opened up a lot of things for me.”

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Born: January 22, 1953
Known for: Film director
Quotes: 127

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