Jim Jarmusch Net Worth

Jim Jarmusch's Quotes

• I know. It's all so . . . independent. I'm so sick of that word. I reach for my revolver when I hear the word 'quirky.' Or 'edgy.' Those words are now becoming labels that are slapped on products to sell them. Anyone who makes a film that is the film they want to make, and it is not defined by marketing analysis or a commercial enterprise, is independent. My movies are kind of made by hand. They're not polished -- they're sort of built in the garage. It's more like being an artisan in some way.
• I consider myself a dilettante in a positive way, and I always have. That affects my sense of filmmaking.
• I feel so lucky. During the late 70's in New York, anything seemed possible. You could make a movie or a record and work part time, and you could find an apartment for 160 bucks a month. And the conversations were about ideas. No one was talking about money. It was pretty amazing. But looking back is dangerous. I don't like nostalgia. But, still, damn, it was fun. I'm glad I was there.
• I prefer to be subcultural rather than mass-cultural. I'm not interested in hitting the vein of the mainstream.
• I'm happiest when I'm shooting the movie. Filming is like sex. Writing the script is like seduction, then shooting is like sex because you're doing the movie with other people. Editing is like being pregnant, and then you give birth and they take your baby away. After this process is done, I will watch the movie one more time with a paying audience that doesn't know I'm there, and then I will never see it again. I'm so sick of it.

Interesting Facts about Jim Jarmusch

1. On Feb. 2, 1994, Jarmusch appeared for an interview before an audience on the first night of a retrospective of his films held by the Walker Art Museum in Minneapolis, MN.
2. Chris Parker, who starred in Jarmusch's first film Permanent Vacation (1980) was a friend of Jarmusch's and had never acted before (according to a 2/2/94 interview with Jarmusch). When Jarmusch submitted "Permanent Vacation" to Tisch as his film thesis/project, they wouldn't accept it - apparently, they didn't think it was worth their time.
3. Is the older brother of Ann and Tom Jarmusch.
4. Good friend of Aki Kaurismäki, Finnish director of Mies vailla menneisyyttä (2002). Placed the final segment of his movie Night on Earth (1991) in Finland with the three characters speaking Finnish.
5. Up until 2005, has never made a film under a studio's watch.
6. Attended Columbia University.
7. Once almost died from eating wild mushrooms, which resulted in an interest in the study of mushroom.
8. Doesn't allow his movies to be dubbed for foreign movie markets. They are mostly shown with subtitles in other countries. His only films that were dubbed are Down by Law (1986) which was dubbed in French and The Dead Don't Die (2019) which was dubbed in French and Spanish.
9. He owns the negatives to all his own films, except one, Year of the Horse (1997), which he made for Neil Young.
10. Father worked at the Goodrich tire plant in Akron, Ohio. Mother reviewed films for the Akron Beacon Journal.
11. Although Broken Flowers (2005) came out after Lost in Translation (2003), Jarmusch wrote the script exclusively for Bill Murray before Sofia Coppola.
12. Has lived with his girlfriend, filmmaker Sara Driver, for 20 years. [2005]
13. At college one of his professors was cult director Nicholas Ray. They formed a friendship and Jarmusch became his assistant for the making of a film.
14. Founder member of "the Sons of Lee Marvin". Other members include Tom Waits, Thurston Moore, John Lurie, Nick Cave. Membership requires a plausible likeness to Lee Marvin such that you could be rumored to be his son.
15. Guest with Johnny Depp of Belgrade Film Festival FEST in 1992.
16. According to Roger Ebert, 'there is a deep embedding of comedy, nostalgia, shabby sadness and visual beauty' in his work.
17. Likes seeing his films once, with a paying audience that doesn't know he is there, after that he doesn't want to see them ever again.
18. Is a founding member of The Sons of Lee Marvin, a humorous "semi-secret society" of artists resembling the iconic actor.
19. Often described as the archetypal auteur of American independent film.
20. Stopped drinking coffee in 1986, the year of the first installment of Coffee and Cigarettes, though he continues to smoke cigarettes.