Phrase by 'Jonas Mekas'
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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 miserable paper. That was, for many years, what art was for me. But from those miserable black-and-white reproductions, I got something, something unmistakable.
Author: Jonas Mekas - Lithuanian DirectorMe , Myself , Time , Art
My life is essentially not so unique. On some deeper levels we feel the same, we know the same things. Therefore if I show my life 365 days, moments from those days, it will reflect and it will have connection with lives of all of us.
Author: Jonas Mekas - Lithuanian DirectorLife , Feel , My Life , Unique
In Lithuania, I am known as a poet, and they don't care about my cinema. In Europe, they don't know my poetry; in Europe, I am a filmmaker. But here, in the United States, I am only a maverick!
Author: Jonas Mekas - Lithuanian DirectorCinema , Care , I Am , Poetry
Place means nothing to me. I can be at home anywhere.
Author: Jonas Mekas - Lithuanian DirectorMe , Home , Nothing , Place
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 what I do, which is recording moments of my life as I move ahead. And I do it because I am compelled to. Necessity, not artistry, is the true line you can follow in my life and work.
Author: Jonas Mekas - Lithuanian DirectorLife , You , Work , I Am
I brought Yoko Ono to New York and gave her her first job there. I was editing a magazine called 'Film Culture.'
Author: Jonas Mekas - Lithuanian DirectorNew , Culture , Job , Editing
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 project, really exhausting, but I still put a lot of stuff on - from life, friends, my own life.
Author: Jonas Mekas - Lithuanian DirectorLife , Friends , Day , I Am
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 material from my own life. I walk through life with my camera, and occasionally I film. I never think about scripts, never think about films, making films.
Author: Jonas Mekas - Lithuanian DirectorLife , Words , Cinema , Walk
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 the shot, the exposure or the speed - slower or faster, etc. That's structuring. And then there is a second stage of structuring that comes later when I begin to put those pieces together.
Author: Jonas Mekas - Lithuanian DirectorYou , Know , Long , Together
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 written, it has to be real and spontaneous. Some of them have become famous, some are not yet famous, some will never be famous. But they are all my friends.
Author: Jonas Mekas - Lithuanian DirectorMyself , Friends , Work , Moments
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