Filmmaking is exploring. Why would I want to make a film about something I already understand? — John Cassavetes Copy Share Image
I won't make shorthand films, because I don't want to manipulate audiences into assuming quick, manufactured truths. — 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
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
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
'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
I think people are very stiff. Money makes people stiff, and we want it, and we have to pay the penalty. I… — 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
Most people don't know what they want or feel. And for everyone, myself included, It's very difficult to say what you mean… — 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
