I make home movies-therefore I live. I live - therefore I make home movies.

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.

There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature... and the thing which pleases us.

Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.

The best way to turn the earth into hell is to turn the state into a god.

I do think poetry needs to invite the reader, especially when there are so many other distractions while reading.

Our great Constitution has been beaten and torn until now it hangs by a single thread, and that thread is our franchise to vote.

Taking care of yourself is so important.

I can't imagine my life without animals. I have two dogs and three cats. Coming home and finding them all lined up at the door waiting for me has got to be one of the sweetest joys of my life.

Consult your spirit, your soul on everything.

Never run from one such as me, female. You will no’ get away - and we like it.

And when you love someone you don’t always see them realistically.