Zitat des Tages von John Cassavetes:
Everyone who makes a film is at the major distributors' mercy.
We have problems, terrible problems, but our problems are human problems.
I have a one-track mind. That's all that I'm interested in - love. And the lack of it. When it stops.
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.
As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail.
No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive.
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.
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.
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 you know? Are you aware of this? Can you cope with this?' A good movie will ask you questions you don't already know the answers to. Why would I want to make a film about something I already understand?
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.
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.
'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.
Commercial movies have no feeling, no sensitivity. Most people tell me people won't understand films with feeling. But everyone can feel.
I'm a great believer in spontaneity because I think planning is the most destructive thing in the world.
