Stranger Than Paradise

“Love this one. Didn’t know it was here. Stranger Than Paradise. Jim Jarmusch. This is a great movie. In fact, this tableau has played in my mind for so many years. And we ended up doing this kind of limited series for Netflix years ago called Flaked, that I wrote, and we tried to recapture this image in a photograph in this one moment in the show. I had a poster of this on my wall when I was about seventeen, maybe sixteen. I’ve always loved this movie, Stranger Than Paradise.”

“Stranger Than Paradise by Jim Jarmusch. I completely love this film. I think it was so refreshing to see that narratives could be actually told in a different manner than the Greeks had taught us at the beginning, the structure with five acts and character arcs and everything else, and what Jim Jarmusch offers us here is something that transcends that kind of classical perception of narrative. And another film I go back to just to renew my faith in cinema.”

“Stranger Than Paradise by Jim Jarmusch, 1984. I was in film school like at the peak of who am I, what am I gonna do? I'm just this weird artsy Godard punk kid, this queer punk kid, like where's my place in the filmmaking world? And this movie came out and I just remember seeing it and being so stunned by it and so inspired. The idea that there was this indie cinema that could exist was for me as a young filmmaker life-changing.”

“Stranger Than Paradise, I love that. It's a long time I haven't seen it. I used to love it and I remember it being really simple. I believe it was shot with a film stock that Wenders gave him I think and it was like if I remember long shot or something and it was really simple but efficient and makes you feel that it's simple to make films, right? So I'd love to see it again.”

“This movie Stranger Than Paradise also very important for me. It seems quite simple but there is a whole life in it. I think all kind of emotions in life is involved in this film somehow and for me it never ages.”