Before she married my father, my mother was a film reviewer for The Akron Beacon Journal - a small newspaper.
Jim JarmuschFor me music is totally freeing, and it's its' own language too. You follow it, in a way.
Jim JarmuschSeparate two particles, place them at opposite ends of the universe, produce some effect in one, and the other will be identically affected.
Jim JarmuschI'd wanted to be a writer and when I came back to New York worked as a musician too, but I found my writing starting to get more and more referential to cinema.
Jim JarmuschMusic, 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