Jim Jarmusch Quotes - Page 2

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• One of our favorite Joe Strummer quotes was, "No input, no output." Meaning, we're going to hear a band, we're going to go to a museum, or we're going to go hang out with some writer that we admire. We're going to get some input, because if we don't, then we have nothing. It's a circle. It's a respiratory thing.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Admire, Hanging Out

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I like repetition, but I really, really like variations, synchronistic things that happen where you're not really thinking about them.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Thinking, Variation, Repetition

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Just write a poem as if you're writing a note to one other person.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Writing, Notes, Persons

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• No mistakes can be make during rehearsals, only progress toward what works best.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Mistake, Progress, Rehearsal

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• I still consider myself to be an amateur filmmaker. And I say that because in the Latin origin of the word amateur is the word love, and it's love of a form, whereas professional implies something you do for money or for work.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Latin, Form, Filmmaker

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

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• Jim Jarmusch: Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision.

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  Vision, Way, Language

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• America is a very venal place; everything has to be sold there. You can repackage your own s**t and sell it if it is marketed in the right way. The motivation is to sell. It's so illogical and strange to me. It's such a disposable culture and yet I feel comfortable being American.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Motivation, America, Way

  "Jim Jarmusch, our favourite film director, interview – by Ian Johnston". louderthanwar.com. January 3, 2011.

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• I always think the Sex Pistols and the Ramones as very, very important because they stripped things down.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Sex, Thinking, Important

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

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• 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.

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• Now in the States if you look at the TV, you see the advertisements, the TV programmes, the pop videos, and the movies, they're all the same style. I think it's very condescending to the audience to assume they only have a three second attention span and so they don't leave anything on the screen for any longer. I don't understand that.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Thinking, Style, Video

  Source: louderthanwar.com

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• It was a really interesting time in New York in the late 70s and early 80s, and the music scene was really, really interesting because you didn't have to be a virtuoso to make music, it was more about your desire to express things.

  Jim Jarmusch

  New York, Interesting, Desire

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

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• If you make a film, that magic is not there, because you were there while shooting it. After writing a film and shooting it and being in the editing room every day, you can never see it clearly. I think other people's perception of your film is more valid than your own, because they have that ability to see it for the first time.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Writing, Thinking, Editing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Domesticity is a fact of how social structure works. So if you say, "Well being domestic as a female is a negative trait," then that would be like saying, "Having a family - because that's an economic unit designed to further the economic structures in the world - if you have a family then you're subjugated."

  Jim Jarmusch

  Facts, Negative, Female

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think of myself as an amateur filmmaker, not a professional, in the sense that "amateur" means love of something, for the form.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Mean, Thinking, Form

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Music just gives me so much energy and inspiration. Music and literature in a way probably influence me more than cinema does because they're different forms and yet related. I probably know as much about music history as I do about the history of cinema.

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  Inspiration, Giving, Cinema

  Source: louderthanwar.com

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• I'm not interested in stories. Stories are interesting but I don't think my head works that way. I remember at age 10 I dreamt of making animated cartoons as loops, something you could just project on your wall and look at from time to time. Kind of, something to stare at, something that's always there.

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  Wall, Thinking, Interesting

  Source: www.newrafael.com

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• In the words of the ancients, one should make his decision within the space of seven breaths. It is a matter of being determined and having the spirit to break through to the other side.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Dog, Break Through, Space

  "Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai". www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• 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

  Trying, Directors, Elements

  Source: louderthanwar.com

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• Good acting is about reacting, not tryingto express something, but reacting to a situation as the character.I don't like acting acting.

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  Character, Acting, Situation

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• Consequently, I get inspiration from all over the place. But it's not like a calculated thing on my part, or a way that I see myself, you know? I'm just interested in things that move me, and I don't care where they come from. In fact, I'm interested if they come from a place I wouldn't expect, or would seem foreign to me on some level.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Moving, Inspiration, Levels

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. May 8, 2009.

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• 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

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• I'd wanted to be a writer and when I came back to New York worked as a musician too, but I found my writing starting to get more and more referential to cinema.

  Jim Jarmusch

  New York, Writing, Starting Over

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

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• Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Soul, Film Music, Bodies Of Water

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

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• 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

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• I wanted to make an Indian character who wasn't either a) the savage that must be eliminated, the force of nature that's blocking the way for industrial progress, or b) the noble innocent that knows all and is another cliche. I wanted him to be a complicated human being.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Block, Character, Progress

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