People who are making films today are too concerned with mechanics - technical things instead of feeling. — 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 at 21. They die emotionally at 21, maybe younger... My responsibility as an artist is to help people… — 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
