I start with actors that I know personally or I know their work, and there are things about their work or their presence or their own personality that make a character, that exaggerates some qualities and suppresses other qualities. It's always a real collaboration for me.

Awards
In 2004 Jarmusch was honored with the Filmmaker on the Edge Award at the Provincetown International Film Festival. Earnest in tone in comparison to its self-consciously hip and ironic predecessors Dead Man was thematically expansive and of an often violent and progressively more surreal character. In an anecdote Jarmusch has recounted of the formative experience of showing his mentor his first script Ray disapproved of its lack of action to which Jarmusch responded after meditating on the critique by reworking the script to be even less eventful.

"Jim" Jarmusch (pron. James R. : /ˈdʒɑrməʃ/; born January 22 1953) is an American independent film director screenwriter actor producer editor and composer.