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Jim Jarmusch Biography

James Robert Jarmusch (/ˈdʒɑːrməʃ/; born January 22, 1953) is 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 (1984), Down by Law (1986), Mystery Train (1989), Dead Man (1995), Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999), Coffee and Cigarettes (2003), Broken Flowers (2005), Only Lovers Left Alive (2013), and Paterson (2016). Stranger Than Paradise was added to the National Film Registry in December 2002. As a musician, Jarmusch has composed music for his films and released two albums with Jozef van Wissem.

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It's a sad and beautiful world.

Beautiful, Beautiful World, Sad, World

I like that cartoons are now not only animated drawings, they are a way of doing something: 'That song sounds very cartoony', or 'He has a cartoon face'. Like the word 'poetic', which usually means something different than a poem. But most of all cartoons are comforting, that's the real reason I need them.

Drawings, Mean, Poem, Poetic, Real, Song

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.

Asleep, Dream, Fall, Like, Want Something

The Limits Of Control is not surrealism, but it is an experiment in which expectations are deliberately removed: expectations for narrative form, for action in a film, for certain emotional content. We wanted to remove those things and see if we could still make a film that was a beautiful film experience, with deliberately removing things many people would expect.

Beautiful, Emotional, Expectations, Film, People, See

I start with actors that I know personally or I know their work, and there are things about their work or their presence or their own personality that make a character, that exaggerates some qualities and suppresses other qualities. It's always a real collaboration for me.

Character, Personality, Real, Work

For me, the music is always like the small rowboat I get into at the very beginning of my process.

Beginning, Music, Music Is, Process, Rowboat, Small

It was a really interesting time in New York in the late 70s and early 80s, and the music scene was really, really interesting because you didn't have to be a virtuoso to make music, it was more about your desire to express things.

70S, Desire, Interesting, Music, New York

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.

Acceptance, Book, Firsts, Live, Published, Social

I've always loved films, always. I studied literature and I went to Columbia in New York and I went to Paris for part of one year and ended up staying there.

Ended, Films, New York, Stay Strong, Staying, Years

In Hollywood Westerns even in the Thirties and Forties, history was mythologized to accommodate some kind of moral code. And what really affects me deeply is when you see it taken to the extent where Native Americans become mythical people.

History, Hollywood, Mythical, Native American, People, Taken

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.

Editing, Magic, Think, Thinking, Writing

I still consider myself to be an amateur filmmaker. And I say that because in the Latin origin of the word amateur is the word love, and it's love of a form, whereas professional implies something you do for money or for work.

Filmmaker, Form, Latin, Professional, Word, Work

Music just gives me so much energy and inspiration. Music and literature in a way probably influence me more than cinema does because they're different forms and yet related. I probably know as much about music history as I do about the history of cinema.

Energy, Forms, Giving, Inspiration

If you go into a bar in most places in America and even say the word poetry, you'll probably get beaten up. But poetry is a really strong, beautiful form to me, and a lot of innovation in language comes from poetry.

America, Beautiful, Poetry, Strong

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

Follow, Language, Music Is, Way

I love silent films. The future is unwritten.

Film, Future, Love, Silent, Silent Films

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?

Beautiful, Gun, Moving, Music, Rhythm

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.

Cherries, Fruit, Inspiring, Movie, Produce, Trying

Making a film that is in seven days of one week is not a new idea.

Days, Film, Idea, Ideas, Seven Days

I'm completely intuitive and I don't like to analyze things.

Analyze, Completely, Intuitive, Like, Things

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