John Cassavetes Quotes

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• Ricardo Montalban is to improvisational acting what Mount Rushmore is to animation.
• Most people don't know what they want or feel. And for everyone, myself included, It's very difficult to say what you mean when what you…
• 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…
• Film is, to me, just unimportant. But people are very important.
• We don't take the time to be vulnerable with each other
• My parents allowed their two sons to be individuals. My family was a wild and wonderful place, with lots of friends and neighbors visiting and…
• 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…
• I hate entertainment.
• The camera is the slave to the actor.
• We have problems, terrible problems, but our problems are human problems.
• You can defeat fear through humor, through pain, through honesty, bravery, intuition, and through love in the truest sense.
• The idea of love as a mysterious, undiscovered world has come to have no place in our innermost imagination.
• The most difficult thing in the world is to reveal yourself, to express what you have to. As an artist, I feel that we must…

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