99 Quotes by Jim Jarmusch

When I'm trying to imagine something, I have a few elements, a few ideas, maybe a certain actor or actress I want to create a certain type of character for, or maybe a certain place.

Separate two particles, place them at opposite ends of the universe, produce some effect in one, and the other will be identically affected.

Good acting is about reacting, not tryingto express something, but reacting to a situation as the character.I don't like acting acting.

When I hear the word 'independent' I reach for my revolver. At this point, what the hell does that mean? The English Patient is an independent film. Hootie and the Blowfish are alternative music. I'm the Queen of Denmark. I don't know what it means anymore.

Each one of us is a set of shifting molecules, spinning in ecstasy,

Select only things to steal that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent

Specific music starts feeding my imagination and gives me a landscape that corresponds somehow, in some abstract way, to the world I'm just starting to imagine.

Jim Jarmusch: Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision.

I prefer to be subcultural rather than mass-cultural. I'm not interested in hitting the vein of the mainstream.