John Cassavetes Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Commercial movies have no feeling, no sensitivity. Most people tell me people won't understand films with feeling. But everyone can feel.”

“The idea of love as a mysterious, undiscovered world has come to have no place in our innermost imagination.”

“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.”

“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.”

“'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.”

“I think people are very stiff. Money makes people stiff, and we want it, and we have to pay the penalty. I never agreed with stiffness. I think people have an understanding of what their life is. I define success by being a realist and not humiliating people. I'm a revolutionary - but not in the political sense.”

“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.”

“You must be willing to risk everything to really express it all.”

“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.”

“Everyone who makes a film is at the major distributors' mercy.”