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.

For an artist, to be normal is a disaster

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

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

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

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.

As a film-maker and a poet, I feel it's my duty to be an eye and an antenna to what's happening around me. I always felt a solidarity with those who are desperate and confused and misused and are seeking a way out of it.