“Music, to me, is the most beautiful form, and I love film because film is very related to music. It moves by you in its own rhythm... Imagine the world without music. Man, just hand me a gun, will you?” MenWorldHandsBeautifulFilmMovingFormMusicImagineGunRhythmRelatedWithout MusicLove FilmsMusic Man Author:Jim Jarmusch
“Film relates to almost every other form of expression, but poetry is a bit abstract in its strength and sometimes even the white spaces on the page are evocative almost as much as where the text is. Certain poets have played with that.” SometimesFilmFormCertainBitsSpaceWhitePoetExpressionPagesRelateAbstractPoetry IsWhite Space Author:Jim Jarmusch
“[Kenneth Koch] taught us to be playful, to be very appreciative of other poets, to appreciate all forms of expression. He taught us to be experimental.” FormTaughtPoetExpressionAppreciateTaught UsAppreciativeKenneth Author:Jim Jarmusch
“I like all forms of movies. I'm a movie geek, so I watch all kinds of films, but - and I read all kinds of things, too. But the poetry that speaks to me the most directly will contain mundane things, will contain details.” KindFilmFormSpeakWatchesDetailsAll KindsGeekMundane Author:Jim Jarmusch
“I still consider myself to be an amateur filmmaker. And I say that because in the Latin origin of the word amateur is the word love, and it's love of a form, whereas professional implies something you do for money or for work.” StillsFormFilmmakerLatinWords Love Author:Jim Jarmusch
“Music just gives me so much energy and inspiration. Music and literature in a way probably influence me more than cinema does because they're different forms and yet related. I probably know as much about music history as I do about the history of cinema.” KnowsWayGivingDoeDifferentInspirationFormLiteratureEnergyInfluenceGive MeCinemaRelated Author:Jim Jarmusch
“The Limits Of Control is not surrealism, but it is an experiment in which expectations are deliberately removed: expectations for narrative form, for action in a film, for certain emotional content. We wanted to remove those things and see if we could still make a film that was a beautiful film experience, with deliberately removing things many people would expect.” PeopleIfsStillsActionWantedBeautifulFilmFormCertainEmotionalLimitsExpectationsExperimentsNarrativeRemoveSurrealism Author:Jim Jarmusch
“I think of myself as an amateur filmmaker, not a professional, in the sense that "amateur" means love of something, for the form.” ThinkingMeanFormFilmmakerMean Love Author:Jim Jarmusch
“Music, to me, is the most beautiful form, and I love film because film is very related to music. It moves by you in its own rhythm. It's not like reading a book or looking at a painting. It gives you its own time frame, like music, so they are very connected for me. But music to me is the biggest inspiration. 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?” ThinkingMenWorldGivingBookHandsInspirationBeautifulFilmMovingFormReadingImagineOne ThingHeardHavensPaintingGunConnectedRhythmRelatedWithout MusicLove FilmsMusic Man Author:Jim Jarmusch
“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.” IfsAmericaBeautifulFormLanguageStrongInnovationBarsPoetry IsBeaten Author:Jim Jarmusch
“A cult classic... both a celebration of the unlimited potential of the comic book form, and a perfect melding of inspiring, iconoclastic imaginations.” BookFormImaginationPerfectComicClassicCelebrationComic BookCultUnlimitedUnlimited Potential Author:Jim Jarmusch
