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 beauty, the poetry of life.
Jonas MekasIn Lithuania, I am known as a poet, and they donโt care about my cinema. In Europe they donโt know my poetry; in Europe, I am a filmmaker. But here, in the United States, I am only a maverick!
Jonas MekasMy 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.
Jonas MekasI 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.
Jonas Mekas