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…

- Jonas Mekas

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…

- Jonas Mekas

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

- Jonas Mekas

We need less perfect but more free films.

- Jonas Mekas

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…

- Jonas Mekas

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.

- Jonas Mekas

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…

- Jonas Mekas

Seek the insignificant small but essential qualities, essential to life

- Jonas Mekas

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 …

- Jonas Mekas