American - Actor | December 9, 1929 - February 3, 1989
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
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I think I'm probably one of the worst directors around, but I do have an interest in my fellow man.
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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?
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My mother and father were never frightened of anything. They always felt that they should go through life happily and without fear, and they did that. And it was a great boon to my brother and myself.
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You can defeat fear through humor, through pain, through honesty, bravery, intuition, and through love in the truest sense.
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You must be willing to risk everything to really express it all.
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As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail.
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I don't care about being on top, about being No. 1. I just make movies for a few suckers in the audience, anyway.
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We only have two hours to change people's lives.
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I won't make shorthand films, because I don't want to manipulate audiences into assuming quick, manufactured truths.
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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.
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The idea of love as a mysterious, undiscovered world has come to have no place in our innermost imagination.
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