Top 40 Cassavetes On Cassavetes Quotes
#2. As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail.
John Cassavetes
#3. I just want to make something that is true to itself and that interests me; otherwise, how can I have the audacity to think it's going to interest anybody else?
Alexandra Cassavetes
#4. There is another movie I love that always sticks with me and influenced me called "Frankie" starring Diane Kruger as a model past her prime trying to make it work and going crazy from how she is treated.
Zoe Cassavetes
#5. 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
#6. I'm not cynical, but I don't really want to have a boyfriend or husband again.
Alexandra Cassavetes
#8. Everyone who makes a film is at the major distributors' mercy.
John Cassavetes
#9. I'm pretty sure a lot of directors would be thrilled to cast age appropriate roles. I am.
Zoe Cassavetes
#11. It was a very hard play [Woman Under the Influence] to do every night. And John Cassavetes said, "Don't worry. Don't even think about it, you're right. I hadn't thought of that." He said, "Just forget it."
Gena Rowlands
#12. 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.
John Cassavetes
#13. John Cassavetes was a year ahead of me but we met there. What you do when you are at a school for drama, you do a play as opposed to a final. Anyone who wanted to come could just come. So he came, and I can't remember the name of the play, of course, it was a long time ago.
Gena Rowlands
#14. It's sweet to hear, but anyone who says that they want to be the next John Cassavetes is crazy. He had it so tough. No one would want to walk a step in his shoes. Believe me - I wouldn't.
Alexandra Cassavetes
#15. I don't care about being on top, about being No. 1. I just make movies for a few suckers in the audience, anyway.
John Cassavetes
#16. I think vampires are different from human beings, but they're sentenced to eternity on this planet. They have the same confusion about love and permanence, integrity, and denial. These qualities really are the same in vampire characters as in humans. I think they're universal themes.
Alexandra Cassavetes
#17. (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.
John Cassavetes
#18. John Cassavetes wrote A Woman Under the Influence as a play. He said, "Hey, I wrote you a play." And I said, "Great, let's read it." I read it and I said, "John, I couldn't do this every night and twice on Wednesday and Saturday".
Gena Rowlands
#19. Love is a component of many different things - the baggage you bring, the moment, what you need in your life, seeing someone as a portal for understanding everything, and all the intensity that brings. It's not something to count on and act like it's a stable thing.
Alexandra Cassavetes
#20. 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
#21. 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.
John Cassavetes
#22. 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
#23. Talking to other people who make low-budget movies, everyone kind of has the same struggle.
Zoe Cassavetes
#25. We don't take the time to be vulnerable with each other
John Cassavetes
#26. I love when I'm writing and I'm cringing because I know I'm doing something right.
Zoe Cassavetes
#28. An artist can accomplish anything provided he doesn't accept facts or defeat for more than a few minutes.
John Cassavetes
#29. When you create, it comes from this deep part of you, and your job is you, and so when you don't get heard it can feel bad and frustrating and you have to somehow keep the confidence up.
Zoe Cassavetes
#30. It was more freedom than I think most people get when they're starting out - or even when they're not starting out. He [John Cassavetes] did his thing and I did whatever I thought.
Gena Rowlands
#31. You can defeat fear through humor, through pain, through honesty, bravery, intuition, and through love in the truest sense.
John Cassavetes
#32. I feel too strongly about rearranging reality in a movie. It gives me peace.
Alexandra Cassavetes
#33. No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes
#34. '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.
John Cassavetes
#35. Ricardo Montalban is to improvisational acting what Mount Rushmore is to animation.
John Cassavetes
#38. The idea of love as a mysterious, undiscovered world has come to have no place in our innermost imagination.
John Cassavetes
#39. 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
#40. I went to this Episcopalian school, and one day I came home and asked my mom, 'What religion are we?' She looked at me and said, 'We're artists.'
Alexandra Cassavetes
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