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Film Quotes by Jonas Mekas
- Since 1950 I have been keeping a film diary. I have been walking around with my Bolex and reacting to the immediate reality: situations, friends,…
- Yes, I got my first Bolex camera a few weeks after being dropped in New York by the United Nations Refugee Organization. That was on…
- 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 me. I always…
- I always work only with friends, but it must be about them and myself. Because I film only very personal moments, nothing preplanned, staged or…
- We need less perfect but more free films.
- I brought Yoko Ono to New York and gave her her first job there. I was editing a magazine called 'Film Culture.'
- In 1962, we created the Filmmakers' Co-Op because nobody wanted to distribute our films. If we had the Internet in those days, we wouldn't have…
- 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, with…
- I am very active on the Internet. In 2007, I made one film every day and posted it on my website. That was a 365-day…
- Once you change the technology - from a film camera to a video camera, or from an 8-mm camera to 16 mm - you change…
- It is important to know that what I do is not artistic. I am just a film-maker. I live how I live and I do…
- I live, therefore I make films. I make film, therefore I live. Life. Movement. I make home movies, therefore I live. I live, therefore I…
- When I came to New York in 1949, there was already an entire fresh avant-garde film movement blooming in New York and California. It was…
More Film Quotes
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- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- To me, watching a movie is like going to an amusement park. My worst fear is making a film that people don't… — Darren Aronofsky
- I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours… — David Attenborough
- You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering the book,… — Paul Auster
- I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments. — Dan Aykroyd
- I don't use any techniques; I'm not trained to be an actor. I just enjoy working in films. — Amitabh Bachchan
- You don't see Indians in Hollywood films around which a story can revolve. As soon as we have a social presence in… — Amitabh Bachchan
- Actors are hard to photograph because they never want to reveal who they are. You don't know if you're getting a character… — David Bailey
- I have to say I've been lucky in that way in that I've been able to go from different films and different… — Amy Adams
- I probably never would have been hired on Broadway had I not moved out to L.A. and pursued acting and film, which… — Amy Adams
- I have a hard time articulating the emotional experience of working on a film. Even when I have meetings on films or… — Amy Adams