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

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, 19….

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

Since 1950 I have been keeping a film diary. I have been walking around with my Bolex and reacting to the immediate reality: situations, friends, New….

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, ….

We need less perfect but more free films..

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

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 ….

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

The deeper I went into culture, the more confused I got. So I needed something more real. I said, "Okay, from now on, my country will be cinema.".

We are the measure of all things. And the beauty of our creation, of our art is proportional to the beauty of ourselves of our souls..

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

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 w….

I'm working in a form of cinema that can be described, and has been described, as a diaristic form of cinema. In other words, with material from my o….

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 ….

Seek the insignificant small but essential qualities, essential to life.

For an artist, to be normal is a disaster.

I'm not an abstract artist; I leave that to others. To me, abstract art ended with Kazimir Malevich's 'Black Square.' To continue it is senseless..

I'm not so much in the future as always in the present. The future always takes care of itself. What I do now with my video camera, it can only recor….

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 ac….

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