Jim Jarmusch Quotes About Character

Quotes about: Character

• 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.

• 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.

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

  Jim Jarmusch

  Character, Acting, Situation

• 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

• I like marginal characters, I like real people. I learn more from talking to my plumber when he comes to fix my toilet than I do from meeting a movie star. I think my movies are in the same vein as that.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Stars, Real, Character

  Source: louderthanwar.com

• 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

• 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

• 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.

• 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

• When I'm trying to imagine something, I have a few elements, a few ideas, maybe a certain actor or actress I want to create a certain type of character for, or maybe a certain place.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Character, Ideas, Trying

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

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