Alexandra Cassavetes Quotes

American - Actress | September 21, 1965 -

I just want to make something that is true to itself and that interests me; otherwise, how can I have the audacity to think it's going to interest anybody else?

Alexandra Cassavetes

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I went to this Episcopalian school, and one day I came home and asked my mom, 'What religion are we?' She looked at me and said, 'We're artists.'

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I didn't plan to be a director until I was 35. For years I wanted to do anything but!

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I wanted to make an adult vampire film, not something for children.

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I think at its most mature, love is a very bourgeois state. There is something about luxuriating in the nest of love that people fall into naturally.

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I think vampires would want to find a way to stay attached to the living, the way human beings do, and that is through love, interrelations and meaning.

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My taste in films doesn't lead financers to think they are going to make a zillion dollars.

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There are so many people I know who could be the greatest film-maker but who will never get the chance to make a movie; it's all about what somebody is going to make back. There are not a lot of romantic ideas about making movies anymore.

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It's sweet to hear, but anyone who says that they want to be the next John Cassavetes is crazy. He had it so tough. No one would want to walk a step in his shoes. Believe me - I wouldn't.

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I don't know about relationships. Maybe I'm supposed to travel and make films and meet people and have adventures instead.

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The vampire movies I embraced as a kid used vampirism as a metaphor that expressed deep sadness and a lot of human qualities.

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I sort of forgot about 'Z Channel' after it went off the air in 1989, but once Jason Resnick of Focus Features made the suggestion, I became obsessed all over again. I still am. I'll probably be this way until I'm 80, babbling about 'Z Channel.'

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