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• In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets.
• I make home movies-therefore I live. I live-therefore I make home movies
• Since 1950 I have been keeping a film diary. I have been walking around with my Bolex and reacting to the immediate…
• In Lithuania, I am known as a poet, and they don’t care about my cinema. In Europe they don’t know my poetry;…
• For an artist, to be normal is a disaster
• Seek the insignificant small but essential qualities, essential to life
• My life is essentially not so unique. On some deeper levels we feel the same, we know the same things. Therefore if…
• Yes, I got my first Bolex camera a few weeks after being dropped in New York by the United Nations Refugee Organization.…
• As a film-maker and a poet, I feel it's my duty to be an eye and an antenna to what's happening around…
• I always work only with friends, but it must be about them and myself. Because I film only very personal moments, nothing…
• In a meadow full of flowers, you cannot walk through and breathe those smells and see all those colors and remain angry.…
• We need less perfect but more free films.

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