Showing posts with label Jim Jarmusch. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jim Jarmusch. Show all posts

Monday, April 20, 2026

Movie Quote of the Day (‘Stranger Than Paradise,’ As A Hungarian Teen Learns About ‘The Way We Eat in America’)

Willie [played by John Lurie]: “You're sure you don't want a TV dinner?”

Eva [played by Eszter Balint]: “Yes. I'm not hungry. Why is it called ‘TV dinner’?”

Willie: “Um... You're supposed to eat it while you watch TV. Television.”

Eva: “I know what a TV is. Where does that meat come from?”:

Willie: “What do you mean?”

Eva: “What does that meat come from?”

Willie: “I guess it comes from a cow.”

Eva: “From a cow? It doesn't even look like meat.”

Willie: “Eva, stop bugging me, will you? You know, this is the way we eat in America. I got my meat, I got my potatoes, I got my vegetables, I got my dessert, and I don't even have to wash the dishes.”— Stranger Than Paradise (1984), screenplay by Jim Jarmusch and John Lurie, directed by Jim Jarmusch

Saturday, September 28, 2019

Quote of the Day (Filmmaker Jim Jarmusch, on the ‘Power of the Human Imagination’)


“I am obsessed by the beauty and power of the human imagination. It's in science, it's in all art forms, it's in all the beautiful things humans create. And it's more powerful than guns or money or anything.”—American director-screenwriter Jim Jarmusch (Stranger Than Paradise, Broken Flowers), quoted in Caryn James, “Influencers: Jim Jarmusch’s American Journey,” The Wall Street Journal, June 4, 2019

(Photograph of Jim Jarmusch taken May 19, 2005, by Alain Zirah.)