"I always work only with friends, but it must be about them and myself. Because I film only very personal moments, nothing preplanned, staged or written, it has to be real and spontaneous. Some of them have become famous, some are not yet famous, some will never be famous. But they are all my friends."

-- Jonas Mekas

#Real Quotes #Film Quotes #Moments Quotes

“Chanel, General De Gaulle and Picasso are the three most important figures of our time.”
“Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.”
“Why have a cake if I can`t eat it?”
“If there is one thing all Fascists and National Socialists agreed on, it was their hostility to capitalism.”

Source : "Varieties of Fascism: Doctrine of Revolution in the Twentieth Century" by Eugen Weber, Princeton, NJ, D. Van Nostrand, (p. 47), 1964.
“We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.”
“It just makes me realize how . . . fleeting life can be. How quickly it all passes by. And it's strange to read something written by someone whose life was really just beginning then but who's dead now."He nodded, looking like he was taking that in. But then he said, "That's kinda deep, Daisy."She laughed, rolled her eyes. "Well, you asked. So if that's too deep for you, tell me about your fish.""Well, they were small and blue and I feel emotional because their lives were really just starting but they're dead now.”
“Solitude is an essential quality of wilderness.”
“It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.”

Source : Charles Franklin Kettering (1961). “Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering”

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