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'“I consider myself an amateur,” '#Jarmusch offers. “Because the root of the word amateur contains the word love.

So, it’s like for the love of doing something, not a lack of skill necessarily, whereas professionalism is: I do this to make money. I’m interested in imperfection...”'
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/apr/22/jim-jarmusch-squrl-carter-logan-film-music-interview
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"I thought that now that I had this plaque (for his award-winning student film: Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads) on top of my television that Columbia, Warner Brothers, Fox, Universal, Spielberg, Lucas, they would call me. So I just sat by the phone and sat by the phone some more. Then the phone got turned off. That's when I decided, I have to try to do it more independently." - Spike Lee

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