Latest Jonas Mekas Quotes from Interviews

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• For me, to catch, to celebrate the reality and life and friends and everything around me the very moment it happens - that's what is, that's what I'm possessed by.

  Jonas Mekas

  Reality, Moments, Celebrate

  Interview with Peter BogdAnOvich, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 26, 2015.

• My films are the celebration of reality, of life, of my friends, of actual daily life that passes and is gone tomorrow. We don't pay attention to it when it happens.

  Jonas Mekas

  Reality, Pay, Attention

  Interview with Peter BogdAnOvich, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 26, 2015.

• The deeper I went into culture, the more confused I got. So I needed something more real. I said, "Okay, from now on, my country will be cinema."

  Jonas Mekas

  Country, Confused, Real

  Interview with Peter BogdAnOvich, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 26, 2015.

• Just as in writing, there are novelistic and sort of pedestrian ways of telling a story, to write a postcard with your little pocket camera and put it on websites. I think that's where the most exciting kind of imagery and content is being recorded and exchanged today.

  Jonas Mekas

  Writing, Thinking, Today

  Interview with Peter BogdAnOvich, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 26, 2015.

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

  Jonas Mekas

  Home, Would Be, Culture

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I missed my teenage years. I was never a teenager.

  Jonas Mekas

  Teenage, Teenager, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I began writing poetry when I was about 10. Bad poetry, but you start with bad poetry.

  Jonas Mekas

  Writing, Writing Poetry

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com