So if actors get upset, or they act childlike, or childish, or anything, I am totally sympathetic with them. And what tools are you you’re using? Your own life experience and emotions. It’s a very complicated thing to be an imaginary person on command. They’re all totally different, and I love that. How do you make it work, over and over again?
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TIME: In general, you seem to know how to bring out the best in your actors. He wants to react, he doesn’t want to act. Other actors love it and they learn from it. Some actors, it’s just not good for them. There are other actors who are like that-Robert Mitchum would never see anything he was in. He doesn’t want to think about, “How did I move, how did I look, how did it come across?” For him, that’s not helpful. He doesn’t like seeing himself because he doesn’t want to break that thing where he just wants to be there and react as the character. Working with him was great because he’s so reactive. And then I heard some interviews with him.
I just loved his face, and his kind of quietness. I saw him do a lovely little thing in Inside Llewyn Davis. TIME: And how did you find your way to Adam Driver, who’s so terrific in the film? It’s almost theatrical, in a beautiful way. I just loved riding for a week, shooting on the bus-just the point of view of looking slightly down on the sidewalks, and all those little shops and things. You don’t really pay attention to people on a bus when you’re on the street, right? But on a bus, you’re not at car level. And the point of view from a bus is very beautiful, because you’re above the people walking by. There’s always all kinds of different people moving through. There are Footlockers, and there’s a Mexican place, and an Arabic clothing store, and a Chinese takeout place. I didn’t get that feeling from this film.ĭowntown Paterson is very vibrant in that way. He goes by Footlocker stores and cheap chain stores, places generally used in films to show that a place isn’t just economically depressed, it’s depressing, period. TIME: You certainly get that sense watching Paterson drive his bus through the city. We didn’t want to just romanticize the decay, or to make it look like an Edward Hopper kind of thing. So we wanted to have a little of that, to mix those things in, not in a really heavy-handed way, but just to let them exist. Mark kept taking pictures of these juxtapositions. Or you’d see a building collapsing, and right next door, a guy painting his new door bright green. We would see a couple arguing, something not so positive, and next door there’d be someone bringing flowers. And Mark would say, “Look!” And every time we’d stop and look at something, we’d see hope and despair in the same image. I would go to look at locations with our production designer, Mark Friedberg, whom I’ve worked with before, and whom I really admire.
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The movie was never intended to be a social document, but I also wanted to weave into the movie, and shoot some of it there, of course. There are a lot of working people there, and a lot of poor people there. Paterson is a very rough place, it’s a difficult place. Our Paterson is admittedly an imaginary Paterson. Here, Jarmusch explains how Paterson came to be, describes his admiration for the work actors do, and offers a mini reading list for anyone out there who may be a poetry lover, but just doesn’t know it yet. (The poems in Paterson, in fact, were written by New York School poet Ron Padgett.) Jarmusch has drawn on that love, and more, to make a picture that shows how art-maybe even especially art made in the margins-can fill up everyday life. He’s a fan, in particular, of Frank O’Hara and John Ashbery, members of what’s commonly known as the New York School of poets. For example, a box of Ohio Blue Tip matches sparks a meditation on the pure, quiet love he feels for his wife, Laura ( Golshifteh Farahani), a charming, stay-at-home DIY dynamo. During coffee and lunch breaks, and in the moments before he begins his route, Paterson writes poems inspired by everyday things. And like an earlier Paterson resident, physician-poet William Carlos Williams, he writes poetry in his spare time.
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In Jim Jarmusch’s thirteenth feature, Paterson, Adam Driver plays a bus driver named Paterson who also happens to live and work in Paterson N.J.
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