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 there’s another director in the world who works harder to make better films than I do. John Cassavetes Read Quote
By the age of 50, I would like to know that I’m not dead – that there’s some continuity to my life. John Cassavetes Read Quote
The idea of love as a mysterious, undiscovered world has come to have no place in our innermost imagination. John Cassavetes Read Quote
I think I’m probably one of the worst directors around, but I do have an interest in my fellow man. John Cassavetes Read Quote
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 it’s true. John Cassavetes Read Quote
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 try many things – but above all we must dare to fail. You must be willing to risk everything to really express it all. John Cassavetes Read Quote
I don’t care about being on top, about being No. 1. I just make movies for a few suckers in the audience, anyway. John Cassavetes Read Quote
You can fail in films because you don’t have the talent, or you have too much humility, or you lack ferociousness. I’m a gangster. If I want something, I’ll grab it. John Cassavetes Read Quote
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 talking loud and eating loud and nobody telling the children to be quiet or putting them down. John Cassavetes Read Quote
