“My kind of filmmaking has no plan. In a very personal kind of cinema I do, recording my daily life and around me, you cannot plan, you don’t know what’s coming. I’m not God, all I can do is watch reality and now. To focus, to be very open to what is happening now.”
Rest in peace, Jonas Mekas, a man who devoted his life to cinema and, in the process, found the sublime in the everyday.
“I don’t see them. I tried, you know? But that’s not cinema. Honestly, the closest I can think of them, as well made as they are, with actors doing the best they can under the circumstances, is theme parks. It isn’t the cinema of human beings trying to convey emotional, psychological experiences to another human being. Nothing like Paul King’s Paddington 2. Nothing at all.”
