Top 133 Quotes & Sayings by Lithuanian Authors - Page 2

I want to have the number one animated show in the world.

God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.

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.

Nike SF Air Force Ones are hands down my absolute favorite sneakers.

People assume that I'm this trashy motel girl, and that those are the only roles I can play, but I really take it seriously, and I know that I can do more.

I was primarily interested in people, and people in action, so that I did nothing photographically in the sense of doing buildings for their own sake or a still life or anything like that.

I feel, having the choices I had, I felt I had more control over my own medium than I did over photography.

Remember that it is not enough to abstain from lying by word of mouth; for the worst lies are often conveyed by a false look, smile, or act.

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.

I can't help but be thankful, and really appreciate everything I have been through, good and bad, because it got me here!

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.

I think any time I'm nervous I just pretend that I'm not, and that's how I deal with it.

It is important to know that what I do is not artistic. I am just a film-maker. I live how I live and I do what I do, which is recording moments of my life as I move ahead. And I do it because I am compelled to. Necessity, not artistry, is the true line you can follow in my life and work.

My earliest memory of freedom was when I was about 14 and I stopped caring what people thought about me! I was so free and in charge! That whole year I was exploring myself, and I was so 'free' that I got sent away to boarding school.

I just feel like my life changed in so many ways, and I'm just taking it all in.

I've struggled with skin issues my whole life.

If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting.

I don't want to be in an office. That's not my thing.

Roy was just another bureaucrat to me, but I realized very soon that without Roy this thing would have died.

I would say I read around 50 books a year, sometimes more.

I recall the night that President McKinley died. I was working at the time at a theatre in St. Louis. The oppressive feeling was in the air. I could not make the people laugh.

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, 1949. With my brother Adolfas, we wanted to make a film about displaced persons, how one feels being uprooted from one's home.

My life is essentially not so unique. On some deeper levels we feel the same, we know the same things. Therefore if I show my life 365 days, moments from those days, it will reflect and it will have connection with lives of all of us.

There are so many things we don't know about because they don't get spoken about, and people might be embarrassed to speak up or might be shamed into not speaking up.

Something is wrong with me - no matter how late I go to sleep, I still wake up really early.

I live, therefore I make films. I make film, therefore I live. Life. Movement. I make home movies, therefore I live. I live, therefore I make home movies.

In narrative cinema, a certain terminology has already been established: 'film noir,' 'Western,' even 'Spaghetti Western.' When we say 'film noir' we know what we are talking about. But in non-narrative cinema, we are a little bit lost. So sometimes, the only way to make us understand what we are talking about is to use the term 'avant-garde.'

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.

Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.

I really hope that the traditional sort of girl that people view as an actress changes. There's room for everyone, you know? All of us bring different things to the table. It's nice to show people that you don't have to be one type of personality to do this.

So many people want to have this typical look and this typical everything and it's all the same everywhere.

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.

Some time ago, we went to Asia and took a camera along, and I began to do what I'd done even years ago doing people. I couldn't get interested in it. And I did hundreds of photographs of details of the monuments as sculpture.

The dearest days in one's life are those that seem very far and very near at once.

I get a lot of really nice messages from girls who are like, 'You make me wanna be myself because people accept it.'

If you feel that you are good, don't be too proud of it.

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.

It used to be twelve people crowded around a sewing table; now it's ten.

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 record what is happening now. I am celebrating reality and the essence of the moment. And that's the greatest challenge that I have.

I didn't care where my works were published.

I want to do comedy, I want to do horror, I want to do all these other things.

I am obsessed with LaCroix, and I drink so much of it.

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

In the South or in the mine country, wherever you point the camera there is a picture.

I'm obsessed with candles.

I would love to work with Pendleton Ward who created 'Adventure Time,' and I'm dying to work with Ryan Murphy. I'm obsessed with 'American Horror Story' and everything he does.

I didn't really go to school much, and I went out a lot. At 16, that's not something you should be doing.

I've been asked a great deal about the influence I've had with my work and it's impossible to say, you know.

I really love Neutrogena's acne mask. It's cleared up my skin on a bunch of occasions.

Every single insane psychotic thing that I've ever believed that seems unfeasible to other people, I've made it happen.

Of course I realize that photography is not the technical facility as much as it is the eye, and this decision that one makes for the moment at which you are going to snap, you know.

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.

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!

I have a plant called Roger Franklin and he is really special. I'm not trying to sound weird, but he has a lot of personality and I talk to him every day. It's the first plant I've kept alive for longer than a week and I'm very proud of that. I try every day to make sure that he's happy.

I really like Clinique's Moisture Surge Hydrating stuff. It's a super concentrated moisturizer. It's pink and comes in a tube.

Some people don't necessarily have family helping them or anyone, even friends, that care enough to help.

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

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 own life. I walk through life with my camera, and occasionally I film. I never think about scripts, never think about films, making films.

People should have affordable places to live. That's a fundamental right.

What is wealth? A dream of fools.