Adam Driver talks about Jarmusch and putting filmmakers first

Props, mementos and photographs adorn Adam Driver 's Brooklyn office. There's an artwork Jim Jarmusch gave him for his 40th birthday, the doll from Leos Carax’s “Annette” and dozens of onset photographs, including one of Driver and his son in the Millennium Falcon.

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“A friend who saw all this said: ‘Oh, so you care,’" Driver says, chuckling. Driver, 41, can come off as stoic but his passion for movies and, in particular, the filmmakers who make them, runs deep. In a relatively short amount of time, he’s worked with a litany of one-name directors: Scorsese. Coppola. Spike. Mann. Spielberg. Jarmusch. Soderbergh. In a movie age where franchises, not filmmakers, have ruled the industry, Driver has stayed remarkably loyal to directors compelled to make personal films. He gamely followed Francis Ford Coppola into “Megalopolis” and helped Michael Mann realize his decades-long passion project, “Ferrari.”