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27 quotes by Jonas Mekas

Jonas Mekas Born (1922-12-24) December 24, 1922 (age 92) Semeniškiai, Biržai, Lithuania Nationality Lithuanian, American Known for Cinema Movement Avant-garde cinema Jonas Mekas (Lithuanian: [ˈjonɐs ˈmækɐs]; born December 24, 1922) is a Lithuanian-American filmmaker, poet and artist who has often been called "the godfather of American avant-garde cinema." His work has been exhibited in museums and festivals world-wide.
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In a meadow full of flowers, you cannot walk through and breathe those smells and see all those colors and remain angry. We have to support the... →

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Once you change the technology - from a film camera to a video camera, or from an 8-mm camera to 16 mm - you change completely the content. With 8... →

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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 make home... →

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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... →

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I'm not an abstract artist; I leave that to others. To me, abstract art ended with Kazimir Malevich's 'Black Square.' To continue it... →

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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, I bought... →

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I brought Yoko Ono to New York and gave her her first job there. I was editing a magazine called 'Film Culture.'

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Most of my videos consist of fragments, one or two minutes long. They are haikus or sketches. I have thousands.

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Place means nothing to me. I can be at home anywhere.

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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 happening around me. I always felt a solidarity with... →

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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... →

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I have never been able, really, to figure out where my life begins and where it ends. I have never, never been able to figure it all out, what... →

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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... →

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