I realized, "Gee, you're making the same film over and over here." I just kept making them for my own amusement, but also with this thought in my head that I could collect enough songs to make an album out of it. I am attracted to non-dramatic moments in life. The idea of a coffee break is not something you'd think of as being an important part of your day, so these shorts were like little free zones in which we could just play around.
Jim JarmuschI always think the Sex Pistols and the Ramones as very, very important because they stripped things down.
Jim JarmuschI like all forms of movies. I'm a movie geek, so I watch all kinds of films, but - and I read all kinds of things, too. But the poetry that speaks to me the most directly will contain mundane things, will contain details.
Jim JarmuschI think of myself as an amateur filmmaker, not a professional, in the sense that "amateur" means love of something, for the form.
Jim Jarmusch