Jim Jarmusch > Quotes

“Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery - celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from - it’s where you take them to."

[MovieMaker Magazine #53 - Winter, January 22, 2004 ]”
― Jim Jarmusch

“If anyone tells you there is only one way, their way, get as far away from them as possible, both physically and philosophically.”
― Jim Jarmusch

“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. It's not like reading a book or looking at a painting. It gives you its own time frame, like music, so they are very connected for me. But music to me is the biggest inspiration. When I get depressed, or anything, I go "think of all the music I haven't even heard yet!" So, it's the one thing. Imagine the world without music. Man, just hand me a gun, will you?”
― Jim Jarmusch

“LIFE HAS NO PLOT, WHY MUST FILMS OR FICTION?”
― Jim Jarmusch, Jim Jarmusch: Interviews

“Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new film, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul.”
― Jim Jarmusch

“Ghost Dog: In the words of the ancients, one should make his decision within the space of seven breaths. It is a matter of being determined and having the spirit to break through to the other side. ”
― Jim Jarmusch

“When you separate an entwined particle and you move both parts away from the other, even at opposite ends of the universe, if you alter or affect one, the other will be identically altered or affected. Spooky. (Adam in Only Lovers Left Alive)”
― Jim Jarmusch

“It's a sad and beautiful world.”
― Jim Jarmusch

“Stupid f***ing white man.”
― Jim Jarmusch

“I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say is very obvious from the lack of plot in my films—although I think they do have plots—but the plot is not of primary importance to me, the characters are.”
― Jim Jarmusch

“Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent.”
― Jim Jarmusch

“nothing is original. steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination”
― Jim Jarmusch

“…Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic.”
― Jim Jarmusch

“It is a sad and beautiful world.”
― Jim Jarmusch

“But what I like most to do is lie down in the early evening, just for half an hour anywhere I am, and listen to all the sounds I can hear. As if I were listening to music. And being attentive to things very far and very present, and when you hear voices and they’re speaking a language you don’t understand, it’s really beautiful. I love that.”
― Jim Jarmusch

“I think I feel not at home in America, but not necessarily at home outside of America.”
― Jim Jarmusch

“Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery - celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from - it’s where you take them to.”
― Jim Jarmusch

“All people are interesting, you just don't know it. [...] Never judge what people are. The world has infinite mysteries and strange things. Be open to them.”
― Jim Jarmusch

“Nothing is original.
Steal from anywhere that resonates
with inspiration or fuels your
imagination.
Devour old films, new films, music,
books, paintings, photographs,
poems, dreams, random
conversations, architecture,
bridges, street signs, trees, clouds,
bodies of water, light and shadows.
Select only things to steal from that
speak directly to your soul.
If you do this, your work (and theft)
will be authentic. Authenticity
is invaluable; originality is
non-existent. And don’t bother
concealing your thievery - celebrate
it if you feel like it.
In any case, always remember what
Jean-Luc Godard said: " It’s not
where you take things from - it’s
where you take them to.”
― Jim Jarmusch

“Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination.

Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul.

If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery - celebrate it if you feel like it.

In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: " It’s not where you take things from - it’s where you take them to.”
― Jim Jarmusch