“When I'm trying to imagine something, I have a few elements, a few ideas, maybe a certain actor or actress I want to create a certain type of character for, or maybe a certain place.” WantTryingIdeasCharacterCertainActorsImagineTypeElementsActresses Author:Jim Jarmusch
“Good acting is about reacting, not tryingto express something, but reacting to a situation as the character.I don't like acting acting.” CharacterActingSituationReactingGood Acting Author:Jim Jarmusch
“I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say is very obvious from the lack of plot in my films - although I think they do have plots - but the plot is not of primary importance to me, the characters are.” ThinkingCharacterFilmImportanceCriticsObviousPrimariesPlot Author:Jim Jarmusch
“I love rehearsing because in rehearsals there are no mistakes, nothing is wrong, some things apply or lead you to focus on the character and the things that don't apply are equally valuable because they lead you to towards what does.” DoeCharacterMistakeFocusValuableRehearsalRehearsing Author:Jim Jarmusch
“I like to rehearse with the actors scenes that are not in the script and will not be in the film because what we're really doing is trying to establish their character, and good acting to me is about reacting.” TryingCharacterFilmActorsActingSceneScriptsReactingGood Acting Author:Jim Jarmusch
“I like actors who just become that person and then react, and Adam [Driver] is completely reactive in that way. So every day working with him was really a pleasure. And he's in almost every scene in the film, so the poor guy had to work the - almost the entire 30 days of our film shoot. But, yeah, he was really a pleasure, and I really love what he - how he embodied this character.” WayPersonsCharacterFilmGuyActorsPleasurePoorSceneYeahDriversAdam Author:Jim Jarmusch
“I like marginal characters, I like real people. I learn more from talking to my plumber when he comes to fix my toilet than I do from meeting a movie star. I think my movies are in the same vein as that.” PeopleThinkingRealCharacterStarsTalkingMeetingsVeinsMovie StarToiletsPlumber Author:Jim Jarmusch
“I like to work with actors that have varied experiences. But I don't choose them because of their experience, I choose them because of qualities I think would make an interesting character and to me there is no one way to direct actors, there is only one way to collaborate with one person.” ThinkingWayPersonsCharacterActorsInterestingQualityDirectOne WayInteresting Characters Author:Jim Jarmusch
“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.” KnowsRealCharacterActorsQualityPersonalityCollaboration Author:Jim Jarmusch
“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.” KnowsWayHumansCharacterWantedForceHuman BeingsProgressComplicatedNobleInnocentBlockIndianSavagesClicheForces Of Nature Author:Jim Jarmusch
