Jim jarmusch

A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the money. William Blake - only his first book was legitimately published.

When I left Ohio when I was 17 and ended up in New York and realised that not all films had the giant crab monsters in them, it really opened up a lot of things for me.

Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision.

I didn't go to classes there, but ended up at the Cinematheque, and there it opened up even wider because there I saw a variety of films from all over the world.

Before she married my father, my mother was a film reviewer for The Akron Beacon Journal - a small newspaper.

I always think the Sex Pistols and the Ramones as very, very important because they stripped things down.

Contradiction was something I really like when it is embraced in that kind of philosophy.

I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say is very obvious from the lack of plot in my films - although I think they do have plots - but the plot is not of...

Baseball is one of the most beautiful games. It is. It is a very Zen-like game.

If you go into a bar in most places in America and even say the word poetry, you'll probably get beaten up. But poetry is a really strong, beautiful form to me, and a lot of innovation in language...