I didn't go to classes there, but ended up at the Cinematheque, and there it opened up even wider because there I saw a variety of films from all over the world. Jim Jarmusch More Quotes by Jim Jarmusch More Quotes From Jim Jarmusch I know from the past, critics often say my films don't have any plot, that kind of thing. I'm used to being told, "Yeah, it's slow and has no plot." Jim Jarmusch plot kind past My films are about the little things that happen between people that are sometimes far more valuable and insightful than the big dramatic things that happen. Jim Jarmusch insightful littles people You are the accumulations of your experiences at any given point. And when you express something those things come out. The thing is I hate seeing my films when I'm done with them, so I don't look back as a chart of my life, but I leave it as a kind of chart. Though, it is a photograph, captured. Jim Jarmusch hate kind done Some people would find just the rhythm of my films alone to be a nightmare; they'd probably just fall asleep because they want something quicker. Other people fall into it and it works for them like a dream. Jim Jarmusch want-something dream fall 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." Jim Jarmusch nyu degrees school 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. Jim Jarmusch real song mean There is something very pleasurable about watching cartoons, a really warm, comfortable feeling. My taste is quite broad, but most of all I like American cartoons. Early Disney, Betty Boop, Roadrunner, Ren & Stimpy, South Park. Sometimes I'll watch Pokemon or bad 80s cartoons. Jim Jarmusch pokemon cartoon feelings Just write a poem as if you're writing a note to one other person. Jim Jarmusch notes persons writing I'm not into killing living things, you know, but I'll always have guns. Jim Jarmusch killing gun knows America was built on an attempted genocide, anyway. Guns were completely necessary. Jim Jarmusch genocide gun america I visited Paterson many years ago - 20 some years ago as a kind of day trip because of William Carlos Williams, because of Allen Ginsberg having lived there. And I went to the Great Falls and sat really in the exact same spot as Adam Driver does as Paterson. And I walked around the factory buildings, and I was rereading - I was reading at the time the epic length poem "Paterson" by Williams. Jim Jarmusch epic reading fall 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 given poet language I like all forms of movies. I'm a movie geek, so I watch all kinds of films, but - and I read all kinds of things, too. But the poetry that speaks to me the most directly will contain mundane things, will contain details. Jim Jarmusch geek details watches I will say it's great - that Method Man - Cliff Smith - plays a rapper in a laundromat who is working out some lyrics sort of to the rhythm of a washing machine. And something about hip-hop culture and hip-hop is the ability to use current language and slang and reference details of life is very, very strong for me. Jim Jarmusch rapper strong men If you have a counterculture band, you put a name on it, you call them beatniks, and you can sell something - books or bebop. Or you label them as hippies and you can sell tie-dyed T-shirts. Jim Jarmusch hippie names book The counterculture is always repackaged and made into a product. It's part of America. Jim Jarmusch counterculture made america I find it very odd that the amendment about the right to bear arms, laws that were written so long ago, still pertain and don't get adjusted properly. Because the right to bear arms doesn't mean automatic weaponry designed specifically for human combat. Jim Jarmusch long-ago law mean Sometimes I make films about scenes other filmmakers would leave out, so I just make the film out of all the things they wouldn't put in. Poetry allows you to do this more than prose, for example. Jim Jarmusch film example sometimes I think people should have the right to bear arms, but they should be limited as to what kinds of guns they can have. Jim Jarmusch gun should-have thinking You can define everything as being political and analyze it politically. Jim Jarmusch political
