Jonas Mekas Quotes - Page 2

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

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  Jobs, New York, Editing

  "Jonas Mekas captures one moment at a time". Interview with Molly Glentzer, www.chron.com. November 15, 2013.

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• I always work only with friends, but it must be about them and myself. Because I film only very personal moments, nothing preplanned, staged or written, it has to be real and spontaneous. Some of them have become famous, some are not yet famous, some will never be famous. But they are all my friends.

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  Real, Film, Moments

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• I began writing poetry when I was about 10. Bad poetry, but you start with bad poetry.

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  Writing, Writing Poetry

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• As a film-maker and a poet, I feel it's my duty to be an eye and an antenna to what's happening around me. I always felt a solidarity with those who are desperate and confused and misused and are seeking a way out of it.

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  Confused, Eye, Way

  "iPOP | This Week on the Scene: NYFF, Wall Street, “Dirty Girl” & More" by Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. October 7, 2011.

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• Once you change the technology - from a film camera to a video camera, or from an 8-mm camera to 16 mm - you change completely the content. With 8 mm, a leaf on a tree will be made up of maybe four grains. So it's very impressionistic, almost like Seurat. If you switch to 16 mm, the technology gives you hundreds of grains on that leaf.

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  Technology, Giving, Tree

  "Short Films From a Long Life". Wired Interview, www.wired.com. December 19, 2006.

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• Most of my videos consist of fragments, one or two minutes long. They are haikus or sketches. I have thousands.

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  Two, Long, Video

  "Short Films From a Long Life". Wired Interview, www.wired.com. December 18, 2006.

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• I missed my teenage years. I was never a teenager.

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  Teenage, Teenager, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Some cameras are heavier and need to be on tripods. Others are small enough to hide in your pocket. There are places where you don't want to feel like you are disturbing anything, so I may use a camera like that.

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  Cameras, Pockets, Needs

  "Short Films From a Long Life". Wired Interview, www.wired.com. December 18, 2006.

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• In 1962, we created the Filmmakers' Co-Op because nobody wanted to distribute our films. If we had the Internet in those days, we wouldn't have needed the Co-Op.

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  Film, Internet, Needed

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• I am very active on the Internet. In 2007, I made one film every day and posted it on my website. That was a 365-day project, really exhausting, but I still put a lot of stuff on - from life, friends, my own life.

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  Stuff, Film, Internet

  "Jonas Mekas captures one moment at a time". Interview with Molly Glentzer, www.chron.com. November 15, 2013.

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• I'm a filmmaker, but my working procedures are different. All my basic structuring is done during the filming. You know, how long I keep the shot, the exposure or the speed - slower or faster, etc. That's structuring. And then there is a second stage of structuring that comes later when I begin to put those pieces together.

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  Long, Together, Etc

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