Jim Jarmusch Quotes - Page 4

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• 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

  Character, Guy, Actors

  Source: www.npr.org

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• It meant a kind of real liberation of expression. It embraced amateurism in a way that I still am inspired by. It was not about trying to get, you know, stadium gigs or even commercial radio play or even record deals for that matter. It was about saying something 'cause you meant it, and expressing something that you felt. And that was primary for that - whatever the scene, whatever punk rock means, it was very, very important to me, very formative.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Real, Mean, Rocks

  Source: www.npr.org

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• 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

  Strong, Men, Rapper

  Source: www.npr.org

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• 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

  Details, Watches, Geek

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Everything is not laden with potential for drama in life.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Drama

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  Expression, White, Space

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  Jobs, People, Might

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm not overly analytical, and I don't set out to make something particularly.

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  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  Past, Plot, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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.

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  Hate, Done, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  Character, Thinking, Interesting

  Source: louderthanwar.com

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• For me music is totally freeing, and it's its' own language too. You follow it, in a way.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Way, Language, Music Is

  Source: thequietus.com

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• 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

  Feelings, Cartoon, Pokemon

  Source: www.newrafael.com

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• I hate those live action versions of animated cartoons. It ruins everything, the whole point of cartoons is to get away from photographs. I mean it would be stupid to say that cartoons are better than photographs but its true.

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  Hate, Stupid, Mean

  Source: www.newrafael.com

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• [Iggi Pop] is very self-taught, self-educated, but, man, that guy knows about so many things.

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  Men, Self, Guy

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• 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

  Song, Real, Mean

  Source: www.newrafael.com

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• 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

  School, Nyu, Degrees

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Those of us who make films try to make something that we're feeling and that we would like. Then we just hope an audience responds the same way. It's very important to have the electrical circuit made, but I don't have control over how people feel when they flip the switch. So the whole idea of marketing research and test screenings is just foreign to me.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Ideas, People, Feelings

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My films have sort of amateur elements, a naive quality, yet they have some sophisticated quality, sometimes the rhythm is kinda elegant.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Quality, Elements, Film

  Source: louderthanwar.com

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• I'm very interested in variations.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Variation

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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, Thinking, Should Have

  Source: www.jonathanrosenbaum.net

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• 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

  Taken, Native American, People

  Source: www.jonathanrosenbaum.net

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• 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

  Language, Poet, Given

  "Jim Jarmusch On Iggy Pop, Hip-Hop And Finding Poetry In Mundane Things". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, news.wfsu.org. January 31, 2017.

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• 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

  Fall, Reading, Epic

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I'm completely intuitive and I don't like to analyze things.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Intuitive

  "Jim Jarmusch On Iggy Pop, Hip-Hop And Finding Poetry In Mundane Things". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, kwbu.org. January 31, 2017.

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