Jim Jarmusch Quotes

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.

I think people should have the right to bear arms, but they should be limited as to what kinds of guns they can have.

I think of myself as an amateur filmmaker, not a professional, in the sense that "amateur" means love of something, for the form.

Everything is not laden with potential for drama in life.

I love variation in all forms: in painting, in music.

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

My films have sort of amateur elements, a naive quality, yet they have some sophisticated quality, sometimes the rhythm is kinda elegant.

I'm not overly analytical, and I don't set out to make something particularly.

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."

I'm very interested in variations.

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].

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

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

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.