11 Jim Jarmusch Quotes for You to Enjoy

Jim Jarmusch

American Director

Born: Jan 22, 1953

Always Beautiful Because Films Me Think

Related authors: David Lynch George Lucas Martin Scorsese Spike Lee Steven Spielberg Tim Burton Woody Allen

A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the money. William Blake - only his first book was legitimately published. Jim Jarmusch

Acceptance Book Money First Live Too William William Blake Only Blake Poets His Lot Social Social Acceptance Certainly Published Margins

Contradiction was something I really like when it is embraced in that kind of philosophy. Jim Jarmusch

Philosophy Kind Embraced Something Like Contradiction Really

I have to tell everyone that when I finish a film and it goes out and is released, I never look at my films again. I don't like looking back. I don't even like talking about 'em! So I'm really digging back in my memory because I don't like to sit and look at my films again. Jim Jarmusch

I like doing them and they're ridiculous and the actors can improvise a lot, and they don't have to be really realistic characters that hit a very specific tone as in a feature film. They're really fun, I want to make more of them definitely. 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. Jim Jarmusch

I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way. Jim Jarmusch

Think Way Visionaries Outlaw Poets

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. Jim Jarmusch

Savage Nature Character Human Being Progress Complicated Innocent Way Must Indian Noble Industrial Force Make Him Cliche Knows Another Blocking Human Being Wanted Either Who Eliminated

I'd wanted to be a writer and when I came back to New York worked as a musician too, but I found my writing starting to get more and more referential to cinema. Jim Jarmusch

Writing Cinema Too Back Musician More More And More Writer New Came Get York New York Wanted Worked Found Starting

Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision. Jim Jarmusch

Vision Language Sense Way Poets Always Certain Certain Way Things

The intention was to shoot short films that can exist as shorts independently, but when I put them all together, there are things that echo through them like the dialogue repeats; the situation is always the same, the way they're shot is very simple and the same. Jim Jarmusch

Together Simple Situation Films Way Independently Echo Through Put Like Always Dialogue Exist Repeats Very Shoot Same Intention Short Short Films Them Shorts Shot Things

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