“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
“Making a film that is in seven days of one week is not a new idea.” IdeasFilmWeekSevenNew IdeasSeven Days Author:Jim Jarmusch
“I had this idea for a long time to make a film about a poet in Paterson named Patterson. I wanted him to be working class. Eventually I thought a bus was a perfect visual way to move him, to drift him through the city, to have a measured kind of routine lifestyle. And all these things kind of congealed into the film "Paterson" eventually.” WayKindLongIdeasWantedFilmMovingPerfectCitiesClassPoetLong TimeLifestyleVisualsRoutineBusWorking Class Author:Jim Jarmusch
“My first film I made, "Permanent Vacation," we shot in 1979 for like $12,000, part of which I got a fake car loan for that Amos Poe told me you could do that. And, yeah, I had no idea what I was doing. It was just like, well, we're going to try and do this. Partly because I had been following Amos Poe and Eric Mitchell around for about a year, and I worked on some of Eric's films as a sound recordist and stuff.” TryingYearsFirstsWellsMadeIdeasFilmStuffSoundCarShotsYeahFollowingNo IdeaPermanentFakeVacationLoanEricCar Loan Author:Jim Jarmusch
“I realized, "Gee, you're making the same film over and over here." I just kept making them for my own amusement, but also with this thought in my head that I could collect enough songs to make an album out of it. I am attracted to non-dramatic moments in life. The idea of a coffee break is not something you'd think of as being an important part of your day, so these shorts were like little free zones in which we could just play around.” ThinkingLittlesImportantIdeasEnoughPlayMomentsFilmSongMy OwnBreakAlbumsCoffeeI RealizedDramaticZoneAmusementShortsCoffee Break Author:Jim Jarmusch
“Those of us who make films try to make something that we're feeling and that we would like. Then we just hope an audience responds the same way. It's very important to have the electrical circuit made, but I don't have control over how people feel when they flip the switch. So the whole idea of marketing research and test screenings is just foreign to me.” PeopleWayFeelsTryingMadeImportantIdeasWholeFeelingsFilmAudienceResearchTestsMarketingFlipElectricalCircuitsScreening Author:Jim Jarmusch
“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.” ThinkingImportantIdeasDoneLyingArtistInterestInfluenceOceanOriginalsEmbraceWaveBeing Original Author:Jim Jarmusch
