John Cassavetes Quotes & Sayings
30 most famous John Cassavetes quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He was an American actor who passed away on 3 February, 1989.
“You can defeat fear through humor, through pain, through honesty, bravery, intuition, and through love in the truest sense.”
“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?”
“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.”
“As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail.”
“I'm a great believer in spontaneity because I think planning is the most destructive thing in the world.”
“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.”
“I have a one-track mind. That's all that I'm interested in - love. And the lack of it. When it stops.”
“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.”
“The camera is the slave to the actor.”
“By the age of 50, I would like to know that I'm not dead - that there's some continuity to my life.”
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