Contradiction was something I really like when it is embraced in that kind of philosophy. Jim Jarmusch More Quotes by Jim Jarmusch More Quotes From 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. Jim Jarmusch guyactorscharacter I'm completely intuitive and I don't like to analyze things. Jim Jarmusch intuitive The filmmaker Amos Poe was a huge inspiration for me by making guerrilla-style punk films on the streets of New York and - well, it's just a lot of painters and artists and filmmakers all within that scene, and it's very, very important to me. Jim Jarmusch artistinspirationnew-york I'm not an analytical person, so it's not my job to even know what the hell the thing meant. It's not my problem. I'm just supposed to do it. Sometimes, people have explained things to me that I might have been semi-conscious of or not. Jim Jarmusch mightjobspeople 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. Jim Jarmusch elementstryingdirectors My films have sort of amateur elements, a naive quality, yet they have some sophisticated quality, sometimes the rhythm is kinda elegant. Jim Jarmusch elementsqualityfilm 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. Jim Jarmusch characterinterestingthinking For me music is totally freeing, and it's its' own language too. You follow it, in a way. Jim Jarmusch music-islanguageway I love silent films. The future is unwritten. Jim Jarmusch silent-filmssilentfilm I think you can only be nostalgic for something you've lost. Jim Jarmusch nostalgiclostthinking The beauty of a movie is that you walk in, you don't know anything about it, you enter a world that's new to you, and that's the magic of being transported. Jim Jarmusch magicwalksworld I'm still trying to learn how to do it, I'm still trying to figure out how to make films, but, yeah, it started then [in 1979]. Jim Jarmusch yeahfilmtrying My first film I made, "Permanent Vacation," we shot in 1979 for like $12,000, part of which I got a fake car loan for that Amos Poe told me you could do that. And, yeah, I had no idea what I was doing. It was just like, well, we're going to try and do this. Partly because I had been following Amos Poe and Eric Mitchell around for about a year, and I worked on some of Eric's films as a sound recordist and stuff. Jim Jarmusch vacationyearsideas I think we need to sort of broaden our definition of poetry, which maybe it's a good thing that they just gave this Nobel Prize to [Bob] Dylan because blurring the lines of song lyrics and also hip-hop for me is like some of the greatest uses - most innovative uses of language in my lifetime. Jim Jarmusch hip-hopsongthinking [Iggi Pop] is very self-taught, self-educated, but, man, that guy knows about so many things. Jim Jarmusch guyselfmen In Hollywood Westerns even in the Thirties and Forties, history was mythologized to accommodate some kind of moral code. And what really affects me deeply is when you see it taken to the extent where Native Americans become mythical people. Jim Jarmusch takennative-americanpeople Film relates to almost every other form of expression, but poetry is a bit abstract in its strength and sometimes even the white spaces on the page are evocative almost as much as where the text is. Certain poets have played with that. Jim Jarmusch spaceexpressionwhite Everything is not laden with potential for drama in life. Jim Jarmusch drama I love variation in all forms: in painting, in music. Jim Jarmusch variationpaintingform I'm very interested in variations. Jim Jarmusch variation
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