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!

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

The nature of the video camera really makes you focus on the present. Since I have always been a diarist filmmaker, not one who stages scenes with actors, it has always been about the present moment.

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

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.

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

For an artist, to be normal is a disaster