American - Actor | December 9, 1929 - February 3, 1989
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.
John Cassavetes
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No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive.
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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.
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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.
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I'm a great believer in spontaneity because I think planning is the most destructive thing in the world.
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I hate entertainment.
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There is no reason why a serious film, one about life, can't be enjoyable, maybe even fun. Emotions can be very entertaining, you know. I try to use them generously in my films.
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Commercial movies have no feeling, no sensitivity. Most people tell me people won't understand films with feeling. But everyone can feel.
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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.
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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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The camera is the slave to the actor.
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I have a one-track mind. That's all that I'm interested in - love. And the lack of it. When it stops.
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