"We need less perfect but more free films."

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Source : Jonas Mekas (2016). “Movie Journal: The Rise of New American Cinema, 1959-1971”, p.16, Columbia University Press

Jonas Mekas

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“Thereâ€™s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.”
“I think I know why you never married, Sarah." "Well, and I reckoned if I wanted something that'd come and go as he pleased, take me for granted, and ignore me when he chose, I'd get a cat. And if I wanted something I'd always have to be picking up after, getting into trouble, but slavishly devoted, I'd get a dog.”
“The world is polarizing over religion. It is getting both more religious and less religious at the same time.”
“I would hope that people might view their fellow beings, all beings, with more empathy, more compassion, with a desire to understand. Even if they can't know why people are the way they are, to understand that they're probably that way for a good reason.”
“Abraham wasn't perfect. He failed, made mistakes. But, he would go back, get right with God, and then just keep moving forward. He didn't quit when things got hard. He just kept on going. And everywhere he went, God was there. God was with him.”
“There is no evidence that government under Republicans will shrink. It`s simply a question of what the government will do and who will benefit.”
“If you are ever completely satisfied with something you have written, you are setting your sights too low. But if you can't let go of your material even after you have done the best that you can with it, you are setting your sights too high.”
“Of all the intellectual hurdles which the human mind has confronted and has overcome in the last fifteen hundred years the one which seems to me to have been the most amazing in character and the most stupendous in the scope of its consequences is the one relating to the problem of motion.”

Source : Herbert Butterfield (1997). “The Origins of Modern Science”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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