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

- 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

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

Seek the insignificant small but essential qualities, essential to life

- Jonas Mekas

We need less perfect but more free films.

- Jonas Mekas

For an artist, to be normal is a disaster

- 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

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…

- Jonas Mekas