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.

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.

The only pressure I agree to, is my conscious and not peer pressure.

And everybody dreams about vampires

Do not believe all that you hear and see.Always check the original source of information.

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.

One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.

If I want to believe that life is lonely and that nobody loves me, then that is what I will find in my world.

Can any one find in what condition his body will be, I do not say a year hence, but this evening?

Haha, you lose! I got your delicious Subway sandwich Jerry 'stupid' Lawler!

Professors of the Dismal Science, I perceive the length of your tether is now pretty well run; and I must request you to talk a little lower in the future.