Jim Jarmusch Quotes

When I Left Ohio When I Was 17 And Ended Up In New York And Realised That Not All Films Had The Giant Crab Monsters In Them, It Really Opened Up A Lot Of Things For Me.

Stupid F***ing White Man.

A Cult Classic... Both A Celebration Of The Unlimited Potential Of The Comic Book Form, And A Perfect Melding Of Inspiring, Iconoclastic Imaginations.

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.

Before She Married My Father, My Mother Was A Film Reviewer For The Akron Beacon Journal - A Small Newspaper.

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.

I Like To Rehearse With The Actors Scenes That Are Not In The Script And Will Not Be In The Film Because What We're Really Doing Is Trying To Establish Their Character, And Good Acting To Me Is About Reacting.

For Me, The Music Is Always Like The Small Rowboat I Get Into At The Very Beginning Of My Process.

I Love Rehearsing Because In Rehearsals There Are No Mistakes, Nothing Is Wrong, Some Things Apply Or Lead You To Focus On The Character And The Things That Don't Apply Are Equally Valuable Because They Lead You To Towards What Does.

I Started Working With Friends Of Mine And That, To Some Degree, Continues.

I've Always Loved Films, Always. I Studied Literature And I Went To Columbia In New York And I Went To Paris For Part Of One Year And Ended Up Staying There.

I Didn't Get The Degree Because In My Last Year, For My Thesis Film I Made A Feature Called Permanent Vacation And They'd Given Me A Scholarship, The Louis B Mayer Fellowship And They Made A Mistake.