“Specific music starts feeding my imagination and gives me a landscape that corresponds somehow, in some abstract way, to the world I'm just starting to imagine.” WorldWayGivingImaginationImagineGive MeStartingLandscapeAbstractFeedingMy Imagination Author:Jim Jarmusch
“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
“I thought The Limits of Control could be interpreted in two ways: as the limits of one's self-control; and as the limits of allowing other people's control over one's - consciousness - which I kind of thought was a double meaning that was appropriate.” PeopleWayKindTwoSelfConsciousnessLimitsAppropriateAllowingSelf ControlTwo WaysDouble Meaning 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
“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
“It meant a kind of real liberation of expression. It embraced amateurism in a way that I still am inspired by. It was not about trying to get, you know, stadium gigs or even commercial radio play or even record deals for that matter. It was about saying something 'cause you meant it, and expressing something that you felt. And that was primary for that - whatever the scene, whatever punk rock means, it was very, very important to me, very formative.” KnowsWayTryingKindMeanStillsImportantRealMatterPlayFeltCausesDealsRecordsRocksExpressionSceneInspiredRadioPrimariesLiberationPunkGigsStadiumsPunk RockRadio Plays Author:Jim Jarmusch
“I'm not putting down anyone that does look at their work in that way, but for me I am a hardcore amateur.” WayLooksDoeHardcore 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
“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
“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
“For me music is totally freeing, and it's its' own language too. You follow it, in a way.” WayLanguageMusic Is Author:Jim Jarmusch
“I'm not interested in stories. Stories are interesting but I don't think my head works that way. I remember at age 10 I dreamt of making animated cartoons as loops, something you could just project on your wall and look at from time to time. Kind of, something to stare at, something that's always there.” ThinkingWayLooksKindStoriesAgeRememberInterestingWallProjectsStaringNot InterestedCartoonAnimatedLoopsYour Wall Author:Jim Jarmusch
“I like that cartoons are now not only animated drawings, they are a way of doing something: 'That song sounds very cartoony', or 'He has a cartoon face'. Like the word 'poetic', which usually means something different than a poem. But most of all cartoons are comforting, that's the real reason I need them.” WayNeedsMeanDifferentRealReasonFacesSongSoundDrawingPoeticCartoonComfortingAnimated Author:Jim Jarmusch
“I went to graduate film school at NYU, and at first I didn't get a degree, because I took a scholarship that was supposed to pay my tuition, and I used it to make a film. For the longest time, I never actually graduated. And about 70 percent of the things I learned there I had to unlearn, but 30 percent was really valuable. It's like Mark Twain said, "Don't let school get in the way of your education."” WayFirstsSaidSchoolFilmUsedPayDegreesPercentMarkValuableGraduatesScholarshipFilm SchoolUnlearnTuitionNyu 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
“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
“Jim Jarmusch: Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision.” WayCertainLanguageVisionPoet Author:Jim Jarmusch
“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.” WayTryingInspiringProduceFruitBest WayFilmmakerMovieCollaborationBananasCherriesNavigators Author:Jim Jarmusch
“I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way.” ThinkingWayPoetryPoetVisionariesOutlaw 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
