As soon as you start making a film that's expensive then the studio wants total control over all elements of it because they want to get all their money back. If you make a smaller film you can try a lot more things because you can have control over it and not just be a hired director. The lower the budget the more freedom you have.
Jim JarmuschBefore she married my father, my mother was a film reviewer for The Akron Beacon Journal - a small newspaper.
Jim JarmuschI'm still trying to learn how to do it, I'm still trying to figure out how to make films, but, yeah, it started then [in 1979].
Jim JarmuschThe beauty of ideas is that they are like waves in the ocean and they connect with things that came before them, and I think it is very important to embrace things that interest you and influence you, and incorporate them into what you do, as all artists have always done. The ones that say they don’t, are lying. Or are afraid that their work won’t be seen as being original, somehow.
Jim Jarmusch