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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I won’t make shorthand films, because I don’t want to manipulate audiences into assuming quick, manufactured truths. John Cassavetes Read Quote
You know as a director what you want, but the film is smarter than you, the film says no, the film says there’s something more here. John Cassavetes Read Quote
Commercial movies have no feeling, no sensitivity. Most people tell me people won’t understand films with feeling. But everyone can feel. John Cassavetes Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I’m a great believer in spontaneity because I think planning is the most destructive thing in the world. John Cassavetes Read Quote
