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Stupid f***ing white man.
It's a sad and beautiful world.
I'm very interested in variations.
I consider myself a feminist, in a way.
Life has no plot, why must films or fiction?
I love silent films. The future is unwritten.
I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way.
A lot of innovation in language comes from poetry.
I love variation in all forms: in painting, in music.
The New York School poets are my godfathers creatively.
Everything is not laden with potential for drama in life.
The beauty of life is in small details, not in big events.
It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.
I think you can only be nostalgic for something you've lost.
I'm completely intuitive and I don't like to analyze things.
Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul.
Making a film that is in seven days of one week is not a new idea.
Just write a poem as if you're writing a note to one other person.
Each one of us is a set of shifting molecules, spinning in ecstasy.
You can define everything as being political and analyze it politically.
I'm not into killing living things, you know, but I'll always have guns.
I started working with friends of mine and that, to some degree, continues.
I didn't get my degree at NYU; I got it later, they gave me an honourary one.
I'm not overly analytical, and I don't set out to make something particularly.
Baseball is one of the most beautiful games. It is. It is a very Zen-like game.
No mistakes can be make during rehearsals, only progress toward what works best.
America was built on an attempted genocide, anyway. Guns were completely necessary.
The counterculture is always repackaged and made into a product. It's part of America.
For me music is totally freeing, and it's its' own language too. You follow it, in a way.
Contradiction was something I really like when it is embraced in that kind of philosophy.
Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision.
[Iggi Pop] is very self-taught, self-educated, but, man, that guy knows about so many things.
For me, the music is always like the small rowboat I get into at the very beginning of my process.
Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination.
I always think the Sex Pistols and the Ramones as very, very important because they stripped things down.
I'm not putting down anyone that does look at their work in that way, but for me I am a hardcore amateur.
Jim Jarmusch: Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision.
Before she married my father, my mother was a film reviewer for The Akron Beacon Journal - a small newspaper.
I prefer to be subcultural rather than mass-cultural. I'm not interested in hitting the vein of the mainstream.
I think people should have the right to bear arms, but they should be limited as to what kinds of guns they can have.
I'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].
I think of myself as an amateur filmmaker, not a professional, in the sense that "amateur" means love of something, for the form.
I love John Ashbery. He's the - really the poet laureate of English language poetry, whether he's given that or not, he is to me.
If anyone tells you there is only one way, their way, get as far away from them as possible, both physically and philosophically.
I like repetition, but I really, really like variations, synchronistic things that happen where you're not really thinking about them.
Good acting is about reacting, not tryingto express something, but reacting to a situation as the character.I don't like acting acting.
My films have sort of amateur elements, a naive quality, yet they have some sophisticated quality, sometimes the rhythm is kinda elegant.
Separate two particles, place them at opposite ends of the universe, produce some effect in one, and the other will be identically affected.
I don't like American football. I think it's boring and ridiculous and predictable. But baseball is very beautiful. It's played on a diamond.
I know from the past, critics often say my films don't have any plot, that kind of thing. I'm used to being told, "Yeah, it's slow and has no plot."