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Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul.

Jim Jarmusch

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Jim Jarmusch
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: January 22
Actor
Director
Film Director
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Writer
Cuyahoga Falls
Ohio
James Roberto Jim Jarmusch
James Roberto Jarmusch
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I think you can only be nostalgic for something you've lost.
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For me, the music is always like the small rowboat I get into at the very beginning of my process.
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Select only things to steal that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable originality is nonexistent
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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.
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I thought The Limits of Control could be interpreted in two ways: as the limits of one's self-control and as the limits of allowing other people's control over one's - consciousness - which I kind of thought was a double meaning that was appropriate.
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Each one of us is a set of shifting molecules, spinning in ecstasy.
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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.
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Before she married my father, my mother was a film reviewer for The Akron Beacon Journal - a small newspaper.
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I prefer to be subcultural rather than mass-cultural. I'm not interested in hitting the vein of the mainstream.
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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.
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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.
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If anyone tells you there is only one way, their way, get as far away from them as possible, both physically and philosophically.
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I know from the past, critics often say my films don't have any plot, that kind of thing. I'm used to being told, Yeah, it's slow and has no plot.
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The beauty of a movie is that you walk in, you don't know anything about it, you enter a world that's new to you, and that's the magic of being transported.
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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.
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My films have sort of amateur elements, a naive quality, yet they have some sophisticated quality, sometimes the rhythm is kinda elegant.
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America was built on an attempted genocide, anyway. Guns were completely necessary.
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Jim Jarmusch: Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision.
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I'd wanted to be a writer and when I came back to New York worked as a musician too, but I found my writing starting to get more and more referential to cinema.
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I started working with friends of mine and that, to some degree, continues.
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