Jim Jarmusch Quotes - Page 3

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• I have a real respect for tobacco as a substance, and it just seems very funny how the Western attitude is, "Wow, people are addicted to this, think of all the money you can make off it."

  Jim Jarmusch

  Attitude, Real, Thinking

  Source: www.jonathanrosenbaum.net

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• I think we need to sort of broaden our definition of poetry, which maybe it's a good thing that they just gave this Nobel Prize to [Bob] Dylan because blurring the lines of song lyrics and also hip-hop for me is like some of the greatest uses - most innovative uses of language in my lifetime.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Song, Thinking, Hip Hop

  Source: www.npr.org

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• America was built on an attempted genocide, anyway. Guns were completely necessary.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Gun, America, Genocide

  Source: www.jonathanrosenbaum.net

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• For me music is totally freeing, and it's its' own language too. You follow it, in a way.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Way, Language, Music Is

  Source: thequietus.com

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• 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

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• 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

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• You can define everything as being political and analyze it politically.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Political

  Source: www.jonathanrosenbaum.net

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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'm not into killing living things, you know, but I'll always have guns.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Gun, Killing, Knows

  Source: www.jonathanrosenbaum.net

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• I love riding on a bus now because you're looking down on the world from not too high of an angle, but people on the street rarely look up into the bus. They're sort of oblivious to this big giant machine, you know, passing by. So there's something very beautiful about the angle that you look at the world through.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Beautiful, Passing By, People

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The New York School poets are my godfathers creatively.

  Jim Jarmusch

  New York, School, Poet

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

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• 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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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the money. William Blake - only his first book was legitimately published.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Book, Acceptance, Firsts

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

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• Specific music starts feeding my imagination and gives me a landscape that corresponds somehow, in some abstract way, to the world I'm just starting to imagine.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Giving, Imagination, World

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

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• I consider myself a feminist, in a way.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Feminist, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm not putting down anyone that does look at their work in that way, but for me I am a hardcore amateur.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Doe, Looks, Way

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Separate two particles, place them at opposite ends of the universe, produce some effect in one, and the other will be identically affected.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Opposites, Two, Ends

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• I don't like American football. I think it's boring and ridiculous and predictable. But baseball is very beautiful. It's played on a diamond.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Beautiful, Baseball, Football

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

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• Cricket makes no sense to me. I find it beautiful to watch and I like that they break for tea. That is very cool, but I don't understand. My friends from The Clash tried to explain it years and years ago, but I didn't understand what they were talking about.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Beautiful, Talking, Years

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• Baseball is one of the most beautiful games. It is. It is a very Zen-like game.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Beautiful, Baseball, Games

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• 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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