I am not greedy. I do not seek to possess the major portion of your days. I am content if, on those rare occasions whose truth can be stated only by …

- Maya Deren

Use your freedom to experiment with visual ideas.

- Maya Deren

And what more could I possibly ask as an artist than that your most precious visions, however rare, assume sometimes the forms of my images.

- Maya Deren

I make my pictures for what Hollywood spends on lipstick.

- Maya Deren

Art is actually based on the notion that if you would really celebrate an idea or a principle, you must think, you must plan, you must put yourself c…

- Maya Deren

Myth is the facts of the mind made manifest in a fiction of matter.

- Maya Deren

The task of cinema or any other art form is not to translate hidden messages of the unconscious soul into art but to experiment with the effects cont…

- Maya Deren

The way back is always shorter.

- Maya Deren

It is not morbidity which draws crowds to scenes of disaster or unusual joy. It is the desire to participate in a moment when life breaks through to …

- Maya Deren