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Jonas Mekas Quotes

We need less perfect but more free films.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality:
Birth: December 24, 1922

Topics

Free Perfect More Need Less Films

Our language - the way that we deal with most actors is we don't like to get very complicated because we don't want them to think too much because we find it takes them out of the moment.

Moment Think Language Find Too Much

My parents were very indiscrete.

Parents Very Were

It's good to pay high taxes - you have free schools, free universities. It's a much more decent society than those where everybody pays their own way, and some people don't get anything.

Stellan Skarsgard

Good People Society Free You Way

I don't know - it's a bit of a mystery of how things come about when they do. I don't have a scientific explanation for it. Sometimes when you're writing a song, you don't know where you're going.

Robbie Robertson

Writing Song Mystery You Sometimes

I act for free, but I demand a huge salary as compensation for all the annoyance of being a public personality. In that sense, I earn every dime I make.

Michelle Pfeiffer

Personality Free Salary Earn Act

On the gay issue, hey, you know what, if people love each other, Jesus, I mean come on.

Michael T. Flynn

Love People You Gay Know Mean

Babies are endlessly fascinating to look at and I'm obsessed about their complete and utter lack of guile.

Look Complete Babies Obsessed About

I think the idea of fact-checking, I think the idea that you come up through a system where you know how to cover night cops, and then you go on, and you go on to various beats, including writing obituaries, and you get names right, you know how to spell them, really has some advantages to it.

Writing Night Think You Go Know

I never had any real expectations about what sort of success I would have or all the publicity.

Success Expectations Never Real Sort

We have no companies now, not in the sense that I know, that nurture actors. It's very depressing that, given the money they get, the companies today don't number up in my estimation. They should be bringing on young talent, and they don't.

Today Money Talent Know Young Now

If it's a whole show of my own, I'll do more of what I think Del Shannon is. But for shows like Disneyland, I'll just do mainly hits. That's what they want to hear. I don't want to bore people. If I wanted that much to play nothing but 12 new songs, then I should go do it in a bar somewhere for peanuts.

People Think Play New Want Nothing

Working with Anthony Hopkins every day is a blessing.

Chris Hemsworth

Blessing Day Every Day Working Every

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