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

For an artist, to be normal is a disaster

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

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 when it happens.

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

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, in the United States, I am only a maverick!

In a meadow full of flowers you cannot walk through and breathe those smells and see all those colors and remain angry. We have to support the beauty, the poetry of life.

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."

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 actors, it has always been about the present moment.

Seek the insignificant small but essential qualities, essential to life

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.

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.

Be positive. Believe that you will succeed. See it, go for it. No matter what the odds, most of the battle is inside your own head. -- Bob Mayer

So many stars are popping out above us it seems you could almost dip your fingers up there and come out with a handful of stars.

Jimmy Boom Semtex says Semtex goes BOOM! Handle his books with care.

Armenia was always a minority nation. The Armenians were annihilated by the Russians and then by the Turks.

When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law.

Looking up is the biggest alibi ever invented to explain a terrible shot. By the time you look up, you've already made the mistake.

We love things that are convenient.

Clothes are functional but that doesn't mean they're not a form of art. They're just another way to express creativity. It could be film, it could garment.

I turned Hamlet down because it was going to take up too much of my drinking time.