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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.

Jim Jarmusch

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Jim Jarmusch
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: January 22
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Cuyahoga Falls
Ohio
James Roberto Jim Jarmusch
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I'm not into killing living things, you know, but I'll always have guns.
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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.
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Everything is not laden with potential for drama in life.
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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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For me, the music is always like the small rowboat I get into at the very beginning of my process.
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America was built on an attempted genocide, anyway. Guns were completely necessary.
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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].
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Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination.
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A lot of innovation in language comes from poetry.
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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.
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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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I'm not an analytical person, so it's not my job to even know what the hell the thing meant. It's not my problem. I'm just supposed to do it. Sometimes, people have explained things to me that I might have been semi-conscious of or not.
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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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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.
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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.
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