Jim Jarmusch Quotes

I have stories that I'd like to maybe one day consider directing, but you need a lot of time to write and put it together.

I have been writing since 11th grade, and have a few features that have almost gotten off the ground. I really want one of my features to come to life.

Mr. Disney and his staff were constantly scouting for great stories to bring to life on film.

I want to make my own films from my own scripts based on stories I want to tell, but they take time to put together.

I got a job as an assistant film editor, which lasted for a few years, but I found writing incredibly difficult, and I thought, 'How am I going to make a film if I can't write?' I didn't really comprehend that someone else would do that bit.

'Hardware' came about because I had written quite a few scripts and hadn't had any luck getting them made.

I want to write a film. I need to think of the right idea and focus on that; I love writing.

I take time to write my script, if I have more scripts, I will make more movies.

Eventually, I would love to direct, but not anytime soon. I just love the storytelling aspect.

Writing a script consumes so much of time.

It's not writing in the traditional sense, but I've always said that the writing process continues on the set and even into the editing room.

My way into making movies - into making things is general - has been through performing.

I'm a big believer that the script is your bible.

Not that I've always loved the movie when they finally come out, or if they ever come out-because many of them don't come out-but I've gotten to work with really good story editors and stuff like that.

Fortunately, John Houseman is a marvelous writer and he sat in on so many story conferences. He worked with Welles, you know, and he's a marvelous man.

Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film.

I spent a long time working in the movies to figure out that kind of acting and also how to write and produce for the screen.

I started off writing TV adverts. I saw those as rehearsals for a feature film.

Do you know how long it took me to write 'For a Few Dollars More'? Nine days.

Movies don't look hard, but figuring it out, getting the shape of it, getting everybody's character right and having it be funny, make sense and be romantic, it's creating a puzzle. Yes, having been a writer for so long, I have an awareness of when things are going awry, but it doesn't mean I know how to fix them.

It slightly depends on your perspective, sort of how you look at these things, but when I sit down to write a script, I'm not planning to write a script; I'm planning to make a film, and so I only see the script as being just a step there.

I had developed this habit of writing scenarios as a hobby. I would find out which stories had been sold to be made into films and I would write my own treatment and then compare it.

I sat down to take a break from writing a book and wrote a spec feature that would end up being the movie 'Lies & Alibis' with Steve Coogan.

I co-wrote and produced 'Sticky Fingers' with Catlin Adams, who directed it. I learned a lot writing and producing with Cat. I spent as much time as I could in the cutting room with her. All the producing experience that I had helped.

Usually, I think, every film I've made has been a book, and I've always read it.