Jim Jarmusch Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• 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

  Inspirational, Music, Dream

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• Life has no plot, why must films or fiction?

  Jim Jarmusch

  Plot, Fiction, Film

• 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

  Beautiful, Reading, Moving

• 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

  Character, Thinking, Plot

  Guardian interviews at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. 15 November, 1999.

• 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... Imagine the world without music. Man, just hand me a gun, will you?

  Jim Jarmusch

  Music, Beautiful, Moving

• 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

• 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

  Dream, Fall, Want Something

  Source: louderthanwar.com

• 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, Done, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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, New York, Paris

  Guardian interview, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 1999.

• 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

  Queens, Mean, Independent

  "Like a Hurricane". Interview with Marjorie Baumgarten, www.austinchronicle.com. November 7, 1997.

• 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

  New York, Inspiration, Artist

  Source: www.npr.org

• I love silent films. The future is unwritten.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Silent Films, Film, Silent

  Source: thequietus.com

• When I studied with Nicholas Ray he was always telling us, "If you want to make films, watch a lot of films, but don't just watch films, go take a walk, look at the sky, read a book about meteorology, look at the design of people's shoes. Because all of them are part of filmmaking." So I thought, perfect! That's a good job for me.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Book, Perfect, Design

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

• 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

  Vacation, Years, Ideas

  Source: www.npr.org

• 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

  Beautiful, Emotional, People

  Source: thequietus.com

• Before she married my father, my mother was a film reviewer for The Akron Beacon Journal - a small newspaper.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Mother, Father, Married

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 1999.

• Making a film that is in seven days of one week is not a new idea.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Ideas, Seven Days, Film

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

  Trying, Film, Yeah

  Source: www.npr.org

• I realized, "Gee, you're making the same film over and over here." I just kept making them for my own amusement, but also with this thought in my head that I could collect enough songs to make an album out of it. I am attracted to non-dramatic moments in life. The idea of a coffee break is not something you'd think of as being an important part of your day, so these shorts were like little free zones in which we could just play around.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Song, Coffee, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

• 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

  Mistake, Vacation, Years

  "The Guardian" interview, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 1999.

• 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

• I never start with the story first, which is maybe obvious, because the narrative line of my films is really not that strong or dramatic. They're very simple.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Strong, Simple, Lines

  Source: louderthanwar.com

• 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

• I have to tell everyone that when I finish a film and it goes out and is released, I never look at my films again. I don't like looking back. I don't even like talking about 'em! So I'm really digging back in my memory because I don't like to sit and look at my films again.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Memories, Talking, Digging

  Guardian interview, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 1999.

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