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

I make home movies-therefore I live. I live - therefore I make home movies.

You have the possibility to give light a dimension in time.

In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets.

In 1962, we created the Filmmakers' Co-Op because nobody wanted to distribute our films. If we had the Internet in those days, we wouldn't have needed the Co-Op.

Yes, I got my first Bolex camera a few weeks after being dropped in New York by the United Nations Refugee Organization. That was on October 29th, 1949. With my brother Adolfas, we wanted to make a film about displaced persons, how one feels being uprooted from one's home.

Some cameras are heavier and need to be on tripods. Others are small enough to hide in your pocket. There are places where you don't want to feel like you are disturbing anything, so I may use a camera like that.