"I'm not so much in the future as……" — 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 my video camera, it can only record what is happening now. I am celebrating reality and the essence of the moment. And that's the greatest challenge that I have."
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29 Quotes by Jonas Mekas
Jonas Mekas has 29 quotes on this site.
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In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets.
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I make home movies-therefore I live. I live-therefore I make home movies
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Since 1950 I have been keeping a film diary. I have been walking around with my Bolex and reacting to…
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In Lithuania, I am known as a poet, and they don’t care about my cinema. In Europe they don’t know…
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For an artist, to be normal is a disaster
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Seek the insignificant small but essential qualities, essential to life
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My life is essentially not so unique. On some deeper levels we feel the same, we know the same things.…
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Yes, I got my first Bolex camera a few weeks after being dropped in New York by the United Nations…
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As a film-maker and a poet, I feel it's my duty to be an eye and an antenna to what's…
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I always work only with friends, but it must be about them and myself. Because I film only very personal…
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In a meadow full of flowers, you cannot walk through and breathe those smells and see all those colors and…
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We need less perfect but more free films.
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More Always Takes Quotes
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Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense…
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I'm not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it…
— Paulo Coelho
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Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.
— Paulo Coelho
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But love is always new. Regardless of whether we love once, twice, or a dozen times in our life, we…
— Paulo Coelho
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It always takes awhile to find out who the characters are.
— Rene Auberjonois
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A princess always takes care that her words are honeyed, for she may have to eat them
— Christina Dodd
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The portal of healing and creativity always takes us into the realm of the spirit.
— Angeles Arrien
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It always takes two. There's the speaker and the listener, you and the audience. You've worked long hours and it…
— Gillian Murphy
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The problem with revenge is that it never gets what it wants; it never evens the score. Fairness never comes.…
— Lewis B. Smedes
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The journeythe journey, I promise you, is the greatest thing ever. The destination always takes care of itself.
— Ray Lewis
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Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don't have.
— John Ortberg
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Chastity always takes its toll. In some it produces pimples; in others, sex laws.
— Karl Kraus
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