3 December 2020 Jim Jarmusch I think it comes from really liking literary forms. Poetry is very beautiful, but the space on the page can be as affecting as where the text is. Like when Miles Davis doesn’t play, it has a poignancy to it.
3 December 2020 Jim Jarmusch 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 comes from poetry.
3 December 2020 Jim Jarmusch I didn’t get my degree at NYU I got it later, they gave me an honourary one.
