Top 35 John Cassavetes Quotes
#1. You can defeat fear through humor, through pain, through honesty, bravery, intuition, and through love in the truest sense.
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#2. We don't take the time to be vulnerable with each other
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#4. An artist can accomplish anything provided he doesn't accept facts or defeat for more than a few minutes.
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#5. My mother and father were never frightened of anything. They always felt that they should go through life happily and without fear, and they did that. And it was a great boon to my brother and myself.
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#6. No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive.
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#7. 'Faces' became more than a film. It became a way of life, a film against the authorities and the powers that prevent people from expressing themselves the way they want to, something that can't be done in America, that can't be done without money.
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#8. Ricardo Montalban is to improvisational acting what Mount Rushmore is to animation.
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#11. The idea of love as a mysterious, undiscovered world has come to have no place in our innermost imagination.
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#12. As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail.
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#13. You can fail in films because you don't have the talent, or you have too much humility, or you lack ferociousness. I'm a gangster. If I want something, I'll grab it.
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#14. Everyone who makes a film is at the major distributors' mercy.
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#16. People don't know what they are doing most of the time. They don't know what they want. It's only in 'the movies' that they know what their problems are and have game plans to deal with them.
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#17. I won't make shorthand films, because I don't want to manipulate audiences into assuming quick, manufactured truths.
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#18. People who are making films today are too concerned with mechanics - technical things instead of feeling.
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#19. I'm not good at comparing and contrasting. I take what's in front of me for what it is, although I guess there's something about Paul's realistic writing that is like Cassavetes.
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#20. People have said that my films are very difficult to watch, that they're experiences you are put through rather than ones you enjoy, and it's true.
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#21. I don't care about being on top, about being No. 1. I just make movies for a few suckers in the audience, anyway.
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#22. There is no reason why a serious film, one about life, can't be enjoyable, maybe even fun. Emotions can be very entertaining, you know. I try to use them generously in my films.
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#23. I have a one-track mind. That's all that I'm interested in - love. And the lack of it. When it stops.
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#24. You know as a director what you want, but the film is smarter than you, the film says no, the film says there's something more here.
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#25. To me there is a name for each person. I think it's marvelous to have a name. A woman is not a woman. It's either Gena or my mother or some other person.
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#26. I'm a great believer in spontaneity because I think planning is the most destructive thing in the world.
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#27. (Acting) is an extension of life. How you're capable of performing in your life, that's how you're capable of performing on screen.
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#28. Art films aren't necessarily photography. It's feeling. If we can capture a feeling of a people, of a way of life, then we made a good picture.
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#29. Commercial movies have no feeling, no sensitivity. Most people tell me people won't understand films with feeling. But everyone can feel.
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#30. I think I probably have the philosophy of a poor man. You know, like maybe I'd steal the pennies off a dead man's eyes.
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#31. I would put my pictures up against anybody's in this world. Certainly in my own day I bow to no one. I don't think there's another director in the world who works harder to make better films than I do.
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#32. I think I'm probably one of the worst directors around, but I do have an interest in my fellow man.
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#33. My parents allowed their two sons to be individuals. My family was a wild and wonderful place, with lots of friends and neighbors visiting and talking loud and eating loud and nobody telling the children to be quiet or putting them down.
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#34. Film is, to me, just unimportant. But people are very important.
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#35. By the age of 50, I would like to know that I'm not dead - that there's some continuity to my life.
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