I won't make shorthand films, because I don't want to manipulate audiences into assuming quick, manufactured truths. — John Cassavetes Copy Share Image
Filmmaking is exploring. Why would I want to make a film about something I already understand? — John Cassavetes Copy Share Image
People who are making films today are too concerned with mechanics - technical things instead of feeling. — John Cassavetes Copy Share Image
I think I'm probably one of the worst directors around, but I do have an interest in my fellow man. — John Cassavetes Copy Share Image
I would put my pictures up against anybody's in this world. Certainly in my own day I bow to no one. I… — John Cassavetes Copy Share Image
'Faces' became more than a film. It became a way of life, a film against the authorities and the powers that prevent… — John Cassavetes Copy Share Image
Commercial movies have no feeling, no sensitivity. Most people tell me people won't understand films with feeling. But everyone can feel. — John Cassavetes Copy Share Image
You can fail in films because you don't have the talent, or you have too much humility, or you lack ferociousness. I'm… — John Cassavetes Copy Share Image
You know as a director what you want, but the film is smarter than you, the film says no, the film says… — John Cassavetes Copy Share Image
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'… — John Cassavetes Copy Share Image
People have said that my films are very difficult to watch, that they're experiences you are put through rather than ones you… — John Cassavetes Copy Share Image
I won't call my work entertainment. It's exploring. It's asking questions of people, constantly. 'How much do you feel? How much do… — John Cassavetes Copy Share Image
I like to act in films, I like to shoot 'em, I like to direct 'em, I like to be around 'em.… — John Cassavetes Copy Share Image
Films today show only a dream world and have lost touch with the way people really are... In this country, people die… — John Cassavetes Copy Share Image
I’ve never seen an exploding helicopter. I’ve never seen anybody go and blow somebody’s head off. So why should I make films… — John Cassavetes Copy Share Image
Art films aren't necessarily photography. It's feeling. If we can capture a feeling of a people, of a way of life, then… — John Cassavetes Copy Share Image
When I started making films, I wanted to make Frank Capra pictures. But I've never been able to make anything but these… — John Cassavetes Copy Share Image
There is no reason why a serious film, one about life, can't be enjoyable, maybe even fun. Emotions can be very entertaining,… — John Cassavetes Copy Share Image
There's a difference between ad-libbing and improvising. And there's a difference between not knowing what to do and just saying something. Or… — John Cassavetes Copy Share Image
My films are expressive of a culture that has had the possibility of attaining material fulfillment while at the same time finding… — John Cassavetes Copy Share Image
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. — John Cassavetes Copy Share Image
I have a one-track mind. That's all that I'm interested in - love. And the lack of it. When it stops. — John Cassavetes Copy Share Image
(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 Copy Share Image
My mother and father were never frightened of anything. They always felt that they should go through life happily and without fear, and they… — John Cassavetes Copy Share Image
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… — John Cassavetes Copy Share Image
The most difficult thing in the world is to reveal yourself, to express what you have to. As an artist, I feel that we… — John Cassavetes Copy Share Image
I have the confidence that I can take anybody and have them give a good performance, because I don't think there's anything to acting… — John Cassavetes Copy Share Image
I like to act in films, I like to shoot 'em, I like to direct 'em, I like to be around 'em. I like… — John Cassavetes Copy Share Image
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… — John Cassavetes Copy Share Image
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… — John Cassavetes Copy Share Image
People who are making films today are too concerned with mechanics - technical things instead of feeling. — John Cassavetes Copy Share Image
