Filmmaker Jim Jarmusch has been making quirky, independent movies since 1980, but in college he studied poetry.

"I'm from Akron, Ohio and as a teenager I first read some wild poems by like [Charles] Baudelaire and [Arthur] Rimbaud in translation and some Walt Whitman. And as a teenager, it really opened me up to, I don't know, poets being very non-conforming," Jarmusch said in a recent interview with Take Two's Alex Cohen. "Reading Baudelaire as a teenager it was like wow, these guys are really like, they're like badass, you know?"

Poetry is what drives his latest film called 'Paterson.' It's set in the real life town of Paterson, New Jersey, home to poets such as William Carlos Williams and Allen Ginsburg. But, this new film focuses on a fictional poet: a bus driver by trade, played by Adam Driver, whose name just so happens to also be named Paterson.

The film was both written and directed by Jarmusch.

To hear the entire conversation between Jarmusch and Cohen about the film, click on the audio at the top of the post.