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 More Quotes by Jim Jarmusch More Quotes From Jim Jarmusch [Kenneth Koch] taught children in public schools in New York City to write poems and told them down worry about rhyming, don't worry about any of that stuff. You know, write a poem where you mention three colors and make it five lines - or he would just give them, you know, little strategies. And, man, they wrote some great poems. Jim Jarmusch new-york writing children [Kenneth Koch] taught us to be playful, to be very appreciative of other poets, to appreciate all forms of expression. He taught us to be experimental. Jim Jarmusch taught-us appreciate expression I had this idea for a long time to make a film about a poet in Paterson named Patterson. I wanted him to be working class. Eventually I thought a bus was a perfect visual way to move him, to drift him through the city, to have a measured kind of routine lifestyle. And all these things kind of congealed into the film "Paterson" eventually. Jim Jarmusch cities class moving I'm not overly analytical, and I don't set out to make something particularly. Jim Jarmusch I'm like a navigator and I try to encourage our collaboration and find the best way that will produce fruit. I like fruit. I like cherries, I like bananas. Jim Jarmusch movie inspiring trying 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. Jim Jarmusch stay-strong paris new-york 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. Jim Jarmusch vacation mistake years I didn't get my degree at NYU; I got it later, they gave me an honourary one. Jim Jarmusch graduation inspirational funny I started working with friends of mine and that, to some degree, continues. Jim Jarmusch mines degrees I always think the Sex Pistols and the Ramones as very, very important because they stripped things down. Jim Jarmusch important sex thinking 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. Jim Jarmusch acting trying character 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. Jim Jarmusch focus mistake character 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. Jim Jarmusch strong beautiful america 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 real personality character Before she married my father, my mother was a film reviewer for The Akron Beacon Journal - a small newspaper. Jim Jarmusch married mother father For me, the music is always like the small rowboat I get into at the very beginning of my process. Jim Jarmusch music-is process A lot of innovation in language comes from poetry. Jim Jarmusch innovation language I don't like American football. I think it's boring and ridiculous and predictable. But baseball is very beautiful. It's played on a diamond. Jim Jarmusch baseball beautiful football Stupid f***ing white man. Jim Jarmusch white-man stupid men I am interested in the non-dramatic moments in life. I`m not at all attracted to making films that are about drama. A few years back, I saw a biopic about a famous American abstract expressionist artist. And you know what? It really horrified me. Jim Jarmusch artist drama years
