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Jim Jarmusch

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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.


— Jim Jarmusch


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I always think the Sex Pistols and the Ramones as very, very important because they stripped things down.


— Jim Jarmusch


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Baseball is one of the most beautiful games. It is. It is a very Zen-like game.


— Jim Jarmusch


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Before she married my father, my mother was a film reviewer for The Akron Beacon Journal - a small newspaper.


— Jim Jarmusch


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Contradiction was something I really like when it is embraced in that kind of philosophy.


— Jim Jarmusch


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Hopefully, if not it's not working right. 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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I didn't get my degree at NYU; I got it later, they gave me an honourary one.


— Jim Jarmusch


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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.


— Jim Jarmusch


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I didn't go to classes there, but ended up at the Cinematheque, and there it opened up even wider because there I saw a variety of films from all over the world.


— Jim Jarmusch


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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.


— Jim Jarmusch


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In 2004 Jarmusch was honored with the Filmmaker on the Edge Award at the Provincetown International Film Festival. Earnest in tone in comparison to its self-consciously hip and ironic predecessors Dead Man was thematically expansive and of an often violent and progressively more surreal character. In an anecdote Jarmusch has recounted of the formative experience of showing his mentor his first script Ray disapproved of its lack of action to which Jarmusch responded after meditating on the critique by reworking the script to be even less eventful.

"Jim" Jarmusch (pron. James R. : /ˈdʒɑrməʃ/; born January 22 1953) is an American independent film director screenwriter actor producer editor and composer.

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