Jim Jarmusch Quotes

I love making films more than anything, but it's tough.

You may love football, but that doesn't mean you have any business trying to play the sport. It's the same thing with filmmaking... everybody has a great idea for a movie, but do you have the stamina to get good at your craft and deal with how heartbreaking it is?

If I can't make the kind of film that I want to make, then the hell with it.

I just want to produce and create projects that I'm passionate about and I love.

Not every actor gives their life to do this job. Some just do it as a job. Well, it's my life.

If you make something with love and, you know, passion and you tell a real story, I think it will always find an audience somehow, you know.

I don't really like the term 'artist.' I'm not sure what it means. It's a bit like 'love.'

I love making movies. But it's a lot of investing your heart and soul. It can be exhausting.

I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career.

I like fashion, but I love, love, love music and film; they are my two passions. I would love to pursue my acting and my love of music more than anything.

I always say, 'I love producing, but directing is my passion,' and for a while, I had to produce to support my directing habit.

I love what I do, and I love the audience, and I love the fact that I get to do it, and I love, I love our craft very, very, much, and it's a noble craft. We have a responsibility to it, and to the audience, and to the playwright, and to the message. I won't ever care less.

I love to go to the studio and stay there 10 or 12 hours a day. I love it. What is it? I don't know. It's life.

I make movies the same way other kids play tennis or go to piano lessons. I'm trying to get better at what I want to do, just like other kids are trying to get better at what they want to do.

I do love the films I've done in the past. I work hard in my movies and my friends work hard and we're trying to make people laugh and I'm very proud of that.

I care about cinema even though I haven't made many films.

My students frequently ask what their next project should be. My advice: immerse yourself in the music you love and you will find what you want to do; you will discover your next project.

Acting, producing, writing, directing - it's all part of something that I believe I was born to be part of.

Lumped in as a hobby, I don't really like drawing pictures all that much, but thinking of it as work, it's the greatest.

I've worked with a lot of people who have a lot of integrity towards cinema.

I saw an early cut of 'The Disaster Artist,' and I thought it was inspiring in a lot of ways, and it made me realize it had been so long since I had tried to make a film or to try to - you know, the book was obviously my first kind of big creative pursuit I had control over.

I know these are my mandatory overs, but I would like to do films for as long as I breathe.

I did not become an actor to earn money - that I could have done it in my village by becoming a farmer. I wanted to show my craft, which I am so passionate about.

I chose when I was 30 to change my life entirely and become a director and sit in the dark and that's what I love doing.

As a filmmaker, I make the films that I love, that are in my heart. That's what I care about.