Down by Law

“My personal favorite from Jim Jarmusch, one of our finest American auteurs. If as filmmakers we're all just laboriously trying to simulate the rush of texture and emotion you get from listening to great music, no one has ever come closer to smacking the heart of a Tom Waits tune up there on the screen than Jarmusch.”

Rian Johnson

Director, Writer

“When I was seventeen, I dressed like John Lurie and Tom Waits in Down by Law. They were the apex of cool in my book. This is my favorite Jim Jarmusch movie.”

Bill Hader

Actor, Director

“This along with nail and I Down By Law are probably the two movies that I would watch when I was a teenager and it was exactly what I dreamed being an adult would be like”

Minnie Driver

Actor

“I just really love the photography in this—it's black and white and I just think this is one of my favorite trios of actors put together in a film.”

Michael Shannon

Actor

“This is one of my old-time favorites.”

Wim Wenders

Director

“I love Down By Law and when you watch the film and the child always comes in like are you watching a film and you're supposed to sleep yes but the film is so loud”

Vicky Krieps

Actor

“I think it was one of the funniest movies I've ever seen. I've seen it at least six times—Jarmusch is a master of straight-faced comedy.”

Frederick Wiseman

Director