Inspiration comes from everywhere

As a songwriter, I constantly find myself questioning whether or not what I’ve created is original. Then I remember what one of my favorite film directors, Jim Jarmusch said…

Jarmusch is ascribed as having instigated the American independent film movement with Stranger Than Paradise.^[30] Critic Lynn Hirschberg declared Stranger than Paradise in a 2005 profile of the director for The New York Times to have “permanently upended the idea of independent film as an intrinsically inaccessible avant-garde form”.^[5] The success of the film accorded the director a certain iconic status within arthouse cinema, as an idiosyncratic and uncompromising auteur exuding the aura of urban cool embodied by downtown Manhattan.^[48][49] Such perceptions were compounded with the release of his subsequent features in the late 1980s, establishing him as one of the generation’s most prominent and influential independent filmmakers.^[50][51] In a 1989 review of his work, Vincent Canby of The New York Times called Jarmusch “the most adventurous and arresting film maker to surface in the American cinema in this decade”.^[32]

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