Cassavetes Films Quotes

#1. I've had people ask me to come and work for them. I went to Vienna and did three scenes in a movie for a guy that I met at a retrospective of Cassavetes films. It's a great way to travel, to meet people, to see different countries and cultures.

Seymour Cassel

#2. Blink and you miss a sprint. The 10,000 meters is lap after lap of waiting. Theatrically, the mile is just the right length: beginning, middle, end, a story unfolding.

Sebastian Coe

#3. I go back to many films that I really love. Some Bresson, some Godard of the early times, the Cassavetes of those years I love. And the early Wim Wenders. But my own films I don't watch, unless I need them.

Agnes Varda

#4. In general, I hate films that are overtly either very masculine or very feminine, you know? The same way that I don't like a war movie about soldiers smashing people's heads. But a chick flick I like would be Cassavetes' movies. 'A Woman Under the Influence,' 'Husbands.'

Gael Garcia Bernal

#5. I nod but what I want to do is tell him about what Marie said, that she told me this isn't about who I love but rather who I am. I want to tell him that I've been asking myself that question over and over and it's starting to seem glaringly obvious that I am different from the person Jesse loves.

Taylor Jenkins Reid

#6. 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.

John Cassavetes

#7. Commercial movies have no feeling, no sensitivity. Most people tell me people won't understand films with feeling. But everyone can feel.

John Cassavetes

#8. 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.

John Cassavetes

#9. What do people want? Well, you really can't talk about wants until you talk about needs.

Kate Klise

#10. My taste in films doesn't lead financers to think they are going to make a zillion dollars.

Alexandra Cassavetes

#11. To assume the gospel in one generation is to lose it in the next.

D. A. Carson

#12. I don't know about relationships. Maybe I'm supposed to travel and make films and meet people and have adventures instead.

Alexandra Cassavetes

#13. The simple, brief experience of imagining oneself as another transformed both self-perception and, through this transformation, behavior. The maxim "fake it till you make it" gains empirical support.

Cordelia Fine

#14. 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.

John Cassavetes

#15. Have gracious thoughts of your neighbors,
kind thoughts of your friends,
loving thoughts of your family,
and humble thoughts of yourself.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#16. My all-time favorites that I always go back to are films by the director John Cassavetes. The movies he made, the work he left behind, have been a big influence for my work.

Nina Hoss

#17. 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.

John Cassavetes

#18. People who are making films today are too concerned with mechanics - technical things instead of feeling.

John Cassavetes

#19. I won't make shorthand films, because I don't want to manipulate audiences into assuming quick, manufactured truths.

John Cassavetes

#20. 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.

John Cassavetes

#21. I was honestly a cartoon kid. I loved cartoons. That was more my dream than anything else. But now, it's the films of people like John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands. Those are the kinds of characters I want to play, and that's the kind of filmmaking I'm fascinated by.

Tatiana Maslany

#22. Everyone has to pay their child support, and no matter if you're a Hollywood actor or anyone else, it's always a little bit more than you want to pay.

Ethan Hawke

#23. I am the Reaper and death is my shadow.

Pierce Brown

#24. Like, I'm a big fan of films from the '70s, like Cassavetes and things, where they just keep the dialogue really loose and just kind of roll, you know what I mean?

Jody Hill