Seek the insignificant small but essential qualities, essential to life

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

We need less perfect but more free films.

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

I had the fortune to spend some time, mostly during the summers, with Jackie Kennedy's and her sister Lee Radziwill's families and children. Cinema was an integral, inseparable, as a matter of fact, a key part of our friendship.

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

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.