I live, therefore I make films. I make film, therefore I live. Life. Movement. I make home movies, therefore I live. I… — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
I'm working in a form of cinema that can be described, and has been described, as a diaristic form of cinema. In… — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
Seek the insignificant small but essential qualities, essential to life — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
My life is essentially not so unique. On some deeper levels we feel the same, we know the same things. Therefore if… — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
I have never been able, really, to figure out where my life begins and where it ends. I have never, never been… — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
My films are the celebration of reality, of life, of my friends, of actual daily life that passes and is gone tomorrow.… — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
It is important to know that what I do is not artistic. I am just a film-maker. I live how I live… — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
I am very active on the Internet. In 2007, I made one film every day and posted it on my website. That… — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
For me, to catch, to celebrate the reality and life and friends and everything around me the very moment it happens -… — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
I live, therefore I make films. I make film, therefore I live. Life. Movement. I make home movies, therefore I live. I live, therefore… — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
I'm not so much in the future as always in the present. The future always takes care of itself. What I do now with… — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
To me, cinema is cinema. Cinema is one big tree with many branches. The same as literature. In literature, you don't just say, 'Oh,… — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
The nature of the video camera really makes you focus on the present. Since I have always been a diarist filmmaker, not one who… — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
In narrative cinema, a certain terminology has already been established: 'film noir,' 'Western,' even 'Spaghetti Western.' When we say 'film noir' we know what… — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
An adventurer can always return home; an exile cannot. So I decided that my home would be culture. — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
Just as in writing, there are novelistic and sort of pedestrian ways of telling a story, to write a postcard with your little pocket… — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
I myself saw the great works of Western civilization for the first time in my high school in Lithuania in bad black-and-white reproductions on… — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
Once you change the technology - from a film camera to a video camera, or from an 8-mm camera to 16 mm - you… — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
I'm working in a form of cinema that can be described, and has been described, as a diaristic form of cinema. In other words,… — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
I'm a filmmaker, but my working procedures are different. All my basic structuring is done during the filming. You know, how long I keep… — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
