I love John Ashbery. He's the - really the poet laureate of English language poetry, whether he's given that or not, he is to me. Jim Jarmusch More Quotes by Jim Jarmusch More Quotes From 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. Jim Jarmusch music dream inspirational I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way. Jim Jarmusch visionaries poetry thinking When I get depressed, or anything, I go 'think of all the music I haven't even heard yet!' So, it's the one thing. Imagine the world without music. Man, just hand me a gun, will you? Jim Jarmusch gun men thinking The beauty of life is in small details, not in big events. Jim Jarmusch details events life-is If anyone tells you there is only one way, their way, get as far away from them as possible, both physically and philosophically. Jim Jarmusch one-way far-away way It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going. Jim Jarmusch funny-motivational goals-dreams baseball Each one of us is a set of shifting molecules, spinning in ecstasy. Jim Jarmusch molecules spinning shifting I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say is very obvious from the lack of plot in my films - although I think they do have plots - but the plot is not of primary importance to me, the characters are. Jim Jarmusch plot character thinking Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Jim Jarmusch stealing-things inspiration imagination 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." Jim Jarmusch female facts negative Music, to me, is the most beautiful form, and I love film because film is very related to music. It moves by you in its own rhythm. It's not like reading a book or looking at a painting. It gives you its own time frame, like music, so they are very connected for me. But music to me is the biggest inspiration. When I get depressed, or anything, I go "think of all the music I haven't even heard yet!" So, it's the one thing. Imagine the world without music. Man, just hand me a gun, will you? Jim Jarmusch reading beautiful moving I prefer to be subcultural rather than mass-cultural. I'm not interested in hitting the vein of the mainstream. Jim Jarmusch mainstream veins hitting 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. Jim Jarmusch ocean artist lying 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. Jim Jarmusch video style thinking 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 Jim Jarmusch bodies-of-water film-music soul Jim Jarmusch: Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision. Jim Jarmusch vision language way 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. Jim Jarmusch emotional beautiful people When I hear the word independent I reach for my revolver. At this point, what the hell does that mean? The English Patient is an independent film... Hootie and the Blowfish are alternative music. I'm the Queen of Denmark. I don't know what it means anymore. Jim Jarmusch independent queens mean One of our favorite Joe Strummer quotes was, "No input, no output." Meaning, we're going to hear a band, we're going to go to a museum, or we're going to go hang out with some writer that we admire. We're going to get some input, because if we don't, then we have nothing. It's a circle. It's a respiratory thing. Jim Jarmusch hanging-out admire Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. Jim Jarmusch bodies-of-water film-music soul
