“Consequently, I get inspiration from all over the place. But it's not like a calculated thing on my part, or a way that I see myself, you know? I'm just interested in things that move me, and I don't care where they come from. In fact, I'm interested if they come from a place I wouldn't expect, or would seem foreign to me on some level.” IfsWayFactsInspirationSeemsCareMovingLevelsDon't CareI Don't Care Author:Jim Jarmusch
“Just write a poem as if you're writing a note to one other person.” IfsWritingPersonsNotes Author:Jim Jarmusch
“Domesticity is a fact of how social structure works. So if you say, "Well being domestic as a female is a negative trait," then that would be like saying, "Having a family - because that's an economic unit designed to further the economic structures in the world - if you have a family then you're subjugated."” IfsWorldWellsFactsWould BeSocialEconomicNegativeFemaleStructureWell BeingTraitsUnitsSocial StructureDomesticity Author:Jim Jarmusch
“If you have a counterculture band, you put a name on it, you call them beatniks, and you can sell something - books or bebop. Or you label them as hippies and you can sell tie-dyed T-shirts.” IfsBookNamesBandSellsLabelsShirtsTiesT ShirtHippieBeatnikCountercultureBebop Author:Jim Jarmusch
“To me, everything is endless variations on other things. Like waves in the ocean. They continue to turn over on each other, and they're all slightly different. I don't know if originality is possible. Is it even necessary? Because everything is different than what came before, but it's all branches from the same tree. Originality is overrated, but what you do with things is always different.” IfsKnowsDifferentTurnsTreeOceanWaveEndlessBranchesOriginalityVariationOverrated Author:Jim Jarmusch
“As soon as you start making a film that's expensive then the studio wants total control over all elements of it because they want to get all their money back. If you make a smaller film you can try a lot more things because you can have control over it and not just be a hired director. The lower the budget the more freedom you have.” IfsWantTryingFilmDirectorsElementsStudiosBudgetsExpensiveOver It Author:Jim Jarmusch
“Now in the States if you look at the TV, you see the advertisements, the TV programmes, the pop videos, and the movies, they're all the same style. I think it's very condescending to the audience to assume they only have a three second attention span and so they don't leave anything on the screen for any longer. I don't understand that.” IfsThinkingLooksStatesThreeAttentionAudienceStyleTvsAssumingPopsScreensVideoProgrammesAdvertisementsAttention SpanCondescending Author:Jim Jarmusch
“America is a very venal place; everything has to be sold there. You can repackage your own s**t and sell it if it is marketed in the right way. The motivation is to sell. It's so illogical and strange to me. It's such a disposable culture and yet I feel comfortable being American.” IfsWayFeelsAmericaMotivationCultureStrangeComfortableSellsRight WayIllogicalDisposable 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
“If you make a film, that magic is not there, because you were there while shooting it. After writing a film and shooting it and being in the editing room every day, you can never see it clearly. I think other people's perception of your film is more valid than your own, because they have that ability to see it for the first time.” PeopleIfsThinkingWritingFirstsFilmAbilityRoomsMagicPerceptionFirst TimeShootingEditingAbility To See Author:Jim Jarmusch
“If anyone tells you there is only one way, their way, get as far away from them as possible, both physically and philosophically.” IfsWayOne WayFar Away Author:Jim Jarmusch
“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.” IfsInspirationalArtBookSoulDreamBodyLightInspirationFilmSpeakWaterImaginationMusicTreeInfluenceStreetsPaintingDirectorsConversationShadowPhotographCloudsArchitectureConversionStealingAuthenticityProducersYour SoulBridgesFuelComposerOriginalityTheftSelectScreenwritersGraphic DesignDevouringArt And CreativityLight And ShadowArtists And CreativityInspirational ArtGraphic ArtistBeing AuthenticResonatingRelay RacesInspiration And ArtThieveryFilm MusicBeing OriginalBodies Of WaterGraphic Art Author:Jim Jarmusch
“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.” IfsFeelsInspirationImaginationOriginalsStealingAuthenticityCelebrateBotherFuelOriginalityCreative ProcessGraphic DesignInvaluableConcealingGraphic ArtistThieveryGraphic Art 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
“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” IfsSoulSpeakStealingAuthenticityYour SoulOriginalityTheftSelectGraphic DesignInvaluableArt And CreativityArtists And CreativityGraphic ArtistBeing AuthenticRelay RacesInspiration And ArtThieveryFilm MusicBeing OriginalBodies Of WaterGraphic Art Author:Jim Jarmusch
“It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.” IfsKnowsHardLostGoalBaseballPlanningSettingTime TravelYankeesSetting GoalsNew York YankeesLife GoalFuture PlansBaseball PlayerGreat TravelInspiring TravelTravel AdventureIsmsAdventure And TravelFamous BaseballAchieving Your GoalsCatchersFunny MotivationalGreat BaseballInspirational AdventureReaching Your GoalsRoads TraveledDreams And GoalsGoals And LifeAchieving GoalsInspirational GoalAlice Adventures In WonderlandLittle LeagueInspirational Goal SettingMotivational GoalFocus On GoalsGoals And ObjectivesInspirational Adventure TimeMotivation Goal SettingGoals And MotivationTravel ExperienceGoals DreamsYankees BaseballReaching GoalsGoals And AmbitionsFork In The RoadGreatest BaseballRight RoadRoad LifeClear GoalsFuture PlanningRealistic GoalsYour Dreams And Goals Author:Jim Jarmusch
