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

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Source : Jonas Mekas (2016). “Movie Journal: The Rise of New American Cinema, 1959-1971”, p.7, Columbia University Press

Jonas Mekas

#Frozen Quotes #Way Quotes #Break Quotes

“Whereas certain people start with a recollection or an experience and paint that experience, to some of us the act of doing is the experience; so that we are not quite clear why we are engaged on a particular work. And because we are more interested in plastic matters than we are in matters of words, once can begin a painting and carry it through and stop it and do nothing about the title at all. All pictures are full of association.”
“When forgiveness is necessary, don't wait too long. We must begin to forgive, because without forgiving, we choke off our own joy; we kill our own soul. People carrying hate and resentment can invest themselves so deeply in that resentment that they gradually define themselves in terms of it.”
“I do know that when I am 60, I should be attempting to achieve different personal goals than those which had priority at age 20.”
“The young show the genetic process, the old merely die of it.”

Source : Hortense Calisher (2013). “Standard Dreaming: A Novella”, p.48, Open Road Media
“Coincidence doesn't happen a third time.”
“The thing that gave me most pride about it was to see the smiles and the pride on my staff's faces, because a restaurant is a team thing, and for the whole team it's very much that touchy-feely thing that I could have helped them achieve such an award.”
“Every fascist state like Germany, France, or modern Poland takes away citizen's right to self-defense. Fascist Americans such as Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton want to take arms away from American society.”

Source : tvn24.pl, July 05, 2008.
“Today you may not understand me and tomorrow you all think as you thought as yesterday; but I believe in my mind that one day you all will understand me; though there is no my presence.”

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