Jim Jarmusch Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
Jim Jarmusch quotes and sayings page 2 (71 year old director). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 29 we have for him.
“I think it comes from really liking literary forms. Poetry is very beautiful, but the space on the page can be as affecting as where the text is. Like when Miles Davis doesn't play, it has a poignancy to it.”
“I don't like American football. I think it's boring and ridiculous and predictable. But baseball is very beautiful. It's played on a diamond.”
“I love rehearsing because in rehearsals there are no mistakes, nothing is wrong, some things apply or lead you to focus on the character and the things that don't apply are equally valuable because they lead you to towards what does.”
“I didn't get my degree at NYU; I got it later, they gave me an honourary one.”
“Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision.”
“Baseball is one of the most beautiful games. It is. It is a very Zen-like game.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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 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.”
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