This is a wonderful interview with Jim Jarmusch, and I do not know what to quote first. How about: I remember some years ago Tom Waits got some award – this was like fifteen or twenty years ago – for best alternative record and he went up there and said, ‘I just have one question. Alternative to what?’ so I was like, Exactly! What is this label? What the hell! ‘Indie’ films?! What does that even mean? Nothing, it doesn’t mean anything. Then it carries on into the content and the thinking of ‘I’m going to put all this twee music on here because that’s what people expect’, So you’re just serving expectations, isn’t that the job of the mainstream? Then you are the mainstream if you do that and again, I’m not saying that’s the worst thing in the world, it’s just the innovative things – they don’t come from there. They don’t come from the safe place of ‘Let’s fulfil their expectations’. Is that any way to start off how to express yourself?
Posted on: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 16:54:18 +0000
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