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

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

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

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."

Seek the insignificant small but essential qualities, essential to life

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

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.

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

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.

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

We need less perfect but more free films.

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

For an artist, to be normal is a disaster

Place means nothing to me. I can be at home anywhere.

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