Jim Jarmusch: The subject is not coffee and cigarettes ��� that���s just a pretext for showing the undramatic part of your day, when you take a break and use these drugs, or whatever. It���s a pretext for getting characters together to talk in the sort of throwaway period of their day.

iW: Why would viewers find that interesting?

Jarmusch: Well, I think our lives are made of little moments that are not necessarily dramatic, and for some odd reason I���m attracted to those moments. I made ���Night on Earth,��� which only takes place in taxi cabs, because I kept watching movies and where people, like, say, ���Oh, I���ll be right over,��� and you see them get out of the taxi, and I���m always thinking, ���I wonder what that moment would be like.��� The moment that���s not important to the plot. I made a whole movie about what could be taken out of movies.

iW: The interstices.

Jarmusch: Yes. One of my favorite directors is Yasujiro Ozu. On his gravestone, which I visited in Japan, was a single Chinese character that means, roughly, ���the space between all things.��� That���s what I���m attracted to.

Interview with Jim Jarmusch, Indie Wire