About Quote by Jonas Mekas

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

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

“pasidaryt mažesniam reikia daug laiko.”

— Jonas Mekas

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

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

An adventurer can always return home; an exile cannot. So I decided that my home would be culture.

— Jonas Mekas

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

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

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

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

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

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…

— Jonas Mekas