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Jim Jarmusch: "Tom Waits said he would glue my head to the wall"

Laura Barton, The Guardian, 9 June 2006

WHEN JIM JARMUSCH speaks, it is like a man emptying out his pockets. "Wild Zero. Guitar Wolf. Where they're killing zombies. Rude Boy. The Clash. Performance, which has Mick Jagger..." He says, as if picking through the bus tickets and half-sucked toffees of his mind, before alighting on something special: "Scorsese," he purrs, "is the classic."

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