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

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.

There is no other way to break the frozen cinematic conventions than through a complete derangement of the official cinematic senses.

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

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

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.