Jim Jarmusch Quotes About Film

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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.
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
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.
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

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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

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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.
Sometimes I make films about scenes other filmmakers would leave out, so I just make the film out of all the things they wouldn't put in. Poetry allows you to do this more than prose, for example.

Jim Jarmusch

Example, Sometimes, Film

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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
My films are about the little things that happen between people that are sometimes far more valuable and insightful than the big dramatic things that happen.

Jim Jarmusch

People, Insightful, Littles

Source: louderthanwar.com
I even think the commercial element of new American directors is really fertile right now. There are a lot of filmmakers with very particular visions, like Sofia Coppola and Wes Anderson and P.T. Anderson and Alexander Payne and Peter Sollett and Harmony Korine and Vincent Gallo. At least they're making films that they choose to make, and they're on their own. That's positive to me. This is not a dead period for American cinema at all.

Jim Jarmusch

Thinking, Vision, Directors

Source: www.avclub.com
I am interested in the non-dramatic moments in life. I`m not at all attracted to making films that are about drama. A few years back, I saw a biopic about a famous American abstract expressionist artist. And you know what? It really horrified me.

Jim Jarmusch

Drama, Artist, Years

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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