“They said: ‘Make a poem to one other person, don’t make a poem to the world. Maybe the secret of the universe is to go with the grain.”, Paterson review – Adam Driver beguiling in miraculous tale of everyday goodness | Peter Bradshaw's film of the week, Gimme Danger review – Jim Jarmusch plugs into Iggy Pop's raw power, Jim Jarmusch: ‘I shy away from sex in my films. “You don’t try to change them. You move it, and control it if you can. Sara Miller Driver[1] (born December 15, 1955[2]) is an American independent filmmaker and actress from Westfield, New Jersey.

[10] Sleepwalk was also featured at the Museum of Modern Art's 1987 New Directors/New Films Festival[11] and the Sundance Film Festival[12] (1987). His mother, Nancy (Needham) Wright, is a paralegal from Mishawaka, Indiana, and his father, Joe Douglas Driver, who has deep roots in the American South, is from Little Rock, Arkansas. “I drink only dry white wine and very dry champagne, but not daily. Their families have lived in those states for many generations. Just the service aspect of running a nonprofit is so gratifying because it takes the attention off yourself. He lives and works in the town of Paterson, New Jersey with wife Laura, an aspiring country singer played with manic pixie energy by Golshifteh Farahani. Quite the opposite: Paterson and Laura are affectionate but chaste onscreen. Says he 'originally passed on' his role of Adam Sackler on. Driver was raised in Mishawaka after his parents' divorce, attending Mishawaka High School, where he appeared in plays. You have to have a sense of humor about yourself...I'm definitely trying to figure this all out as I go along, how to craft a career. I’m trying to find a Zen way where you are just there each moment and you’re not thinking too much about what’s going to happen next.”, Jarmusch has alluded to poets such as Walt Whitman and Robert Frost in his films before, but here he places the act of writing at the heart of the story.

Adam Douglas Driver was born in San Diego, California. I was basically living in a back room of my parents' house, paying rent and not doing anything with my life. She spent her junior year studying in Athens, and participated in a production by the National Opera of Greece. The other is Gimme Danger, a documentary about another American poet, Iggy Pop.

Served in the United States Marine Corps, and currently manages Arts in the Armed Forces, a non-profit organization that stages theatrical performances for military personnel.

Official Sites, Known for his aversion to watching or hearing his own performances. I mean, I was never after trying to get an Emmy. The biggest action is the bus breaking down, and how funny it is that that’s the thing that sends people into a crisis. His ancestry includes English, Dutch, German, Irish, and Scottish. I'm not an acting monk or anything. In the military, you learn the essence of people. Compared to the nervous energy of those films, Paterson is a departure, being about a couple who’ve found a measure of contentment.

Before becoming an actor, he once worked as a door-to-door Kirby Vacuum salesman, a telemarketer for a basement water-proofing company, and Ben Franklin construction company. After almost 40 years in cinema, the director remains the quintessential leftfield auteur. He’s wearing dark glasses indoors and is dressed as if he may at any moment be called on to play guitar with the Velvet Underground. [on working with the Coen brothers] I think they have a common theme, even though they work in completely different ways. “For me, it’s incredibly important to have space,” says Jarmusch. Paterson writes poems, although he has no desire to publish them.

"[17], The moving image collection of Sara Driver is held at the Academy Film Archive. It follows a week in the life of a bus driver named Paterson, played by Adam Driver. Before his major mainstream roles like in the Star Wars franchise, he has often played socially awkward characters. His stepfather is a Baptist minister.

Driver has directed two feature films, Sleepwalk (1986) and When Pigs Fly(1993), as well as a notable short film, You Are Not I (1981), an…

Sara Driver, Adam Driver, Chloe Sevigny attend screening of `The Dead Don`t Die` during the 72nd Cannes Film Festival on May 14, 2019 in Cannes, France film festival , chloe sevigny ,

It tells the story of the formation, self-destruction and eventual redemption of the Stooges.

“I have caffeine in tea – and sugar, that’s a vice,” he says. At the Emmy Awards, everybody runs up to you and says, 'Aren't you having the time of your life?' “What I love about film is it has all the other forms inside of it. Their families have lived in … They're kind of unanimous in that way. It’s a celebration of the everyday. They encourage one another and never fight. Does not watch his own performances onscreen, and even declines to listen to audio clips of himself while being interviewed on the radio. It makes me a little nervous as a storyteller.”, If he ever makes a film about sex it would have to represent that totality.

Just to see the Coens at the state they are in with their careers, and how they still have this relentless pursuit to to tell the best version possible, and do all their homework - it's incredible to have been able to witness. “They’re very tender,” he says. I don’t drink hard alcohol and I don’t drink any other stuff. I'm not, like, the most well-adjusted actor. Guess I can go back to working now. I'd like to say it was patriotic to join the Marines, but it was also that I was doing nothing honorable with my life, and spending too much time at McDonald's. Anonymous, Other Works

A participant in the independent film scene that flourished in lower Manhattan from the late 1970s through the 1990s, she gained initial recognition as producer of two early films by Jim Jarmusch, Permanent Vacation (1980) and Stranger Than Paradise (1984). Some of his Dutch ancestors were from Friesland. Driver has producer and production credits for many films of Jim Jarmusch, as well as minor roles in three of his films. As things get bigger, I have days of depression, sitting in the house and wondering 'What are you doing? Of course, you have to make compromises in any kind of relationship, whether it’s a love one or a working one, but as soon as you start telling the other person why you want them to be some other way that’s the beginning of the end.

“If you listen to China Girl, I bet Bob Dylan would love to have written that,” he says. It turned that way when he was 15 due to an inherited condition. Publicity Listings Currently resides in Brooklyn Heights, New York City. He is the son of Joe Douglas Driver and Nancy (Needham) Wright. “This is just a quiet story,” he says. It’s not easy to do that without smacking of pretension, yet Paterson’s poems – in fact written by the New York School poet Ron Padgett – all seem to rise naturally from the routine of the bus driver’s life.