Jim Jarmusch
Jim Jarmusch
James Roberto "Jim" Jarmuschis an American film director, screenwriter, actor, producer, editor, and composer. He has been a major proponent of independent cinema since the 1980s, directing such films as Stranger Than Paradise, Down by Law, Mystery Train, Dead Man, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, Coffee and Cigarettes, Broken Flowers, and Only Lovers Left Alive. Stranger Than Paradise was added to the National Film Registry in December 2002. As a musician, Jarmusch has composed music for his films...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth22 January 1953
CountryUnited States of America
Hopefully, if not it's not working right. 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.
I didn't go to classes there, but ended up at the Cinematheque, and there it opened up even wider because there I saw a variety of films from all over the world.
I hope not, ... God, I hope not.
I negotiate my deals with a loaded shotgun. They were not on the set of the film.
is a kind of sad film -- it has a lot of funny stuff in it -- but I don't think of it as a comedy. ... The humor isn't a result of gags or big jokes, but small behavioral things people do.
Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic.
It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.
I prefer to be subcultural rather than mass-cultural. I'm not interested in hitting the vein of the mainstream.
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.
Each one of us is a set of shifting molecules, spinning in ecstasy,
Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul.
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.
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.
I always think the Sex Pistols and the Ramones as very, very important because they stripped things down.