Jim Jarmusch Quotes - Page 5

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• [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

  Expression, Taught Us, Appreciate

  Source: www.npr.org

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• 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

  Mean, Long Ago, Law

  Source: www.jonathanrosenbaum.net

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• 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

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• 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

  Moving, Class, Cities

  Source: www.npr.org

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• 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

  Book, Hippie, Names

  Source: www.jonathanrosenbaum.net

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• 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

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• I love variation in all forms: in painting, in music.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Variation, Painting, Form

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• [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, Children, Writing

  Source: www.npr.org

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• 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

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• 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.

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• 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

  The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 1999.

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• 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.

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• I started working with friends of mine and that, to some degree, continues.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Degrees, Mines

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

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• I didn't get my degree at NYU; I got it later, they gave me an honourary one.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• 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

  Character, Trying, Acting

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• 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

  Mistake, Character, Focus

  The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 1999.

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• 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

  Beautiful, Strong, America

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• 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.

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• 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, Character, Personality

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

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• For me, the music is always like the small rowboat I get into at the very beginning of my process.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Process, Music Is

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

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• Stupid f***ing white man.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Stupid, Men, White Man

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• When I left Ohio when I was 17 and ended up in New York and realised that not all films had the giant crab monsters in them, it really opened up a lot of things for me.

  Jim Jarmusch

  New York, Ohio, Monsters

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

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• A cult classic... both a celebration of the unlimited potential of the comic book form, and a perfect melding of inspiring, iconoclastic imaginations.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Book, Unlimited Potential, Perfect

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