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John Cassavetes quotes: No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive.

No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive.

John Cassavetes quotes: The camera is the slave to the actor.

The camera is the slave to the actor.

John Cassavetes quotes: Ricardo Montalban is to improvisational acting what Mount Rushmore is to animation.

Ricardo Montalban is to improvisational acting what Mount Rushmore is to animation.

John Cassavetes quotes: The idea of love as a mysterious, undiscovered world has come to have no place in our innermost imagination.

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

John Cassavetes quotes: Art films aren't necessarily photography. It's feeling. If we can capture a feeling of a people, of a way of life, then we made a good picture.

Art films aren't necessarily photography. It's feeling. If we can capture a feeling of a people, of a way of life, then we made a good picture.

John Cassavetes quotes: I'm a great believer in spontaneity because I think planning is the most destructive thing in the world.

I'm a great believer in spontaneity because I think planning is the most destructive thing in the world.

John Cassavetes quotes: I have a one-track mind. That's all that I'm interested in - love. And the lack of it. When it stops.

I have a one-track mind. That's all that I'm interested in - love. And the lack of it. When it stops.

John Cassavetes quotes: Everyone who makes a film is at the major distributors' mercy.

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

John Cassavetes quotes: As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail.

As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail.

John Cassavetes quotes: I won't make shorthand films, because I don't want to manipulate audiences into assuming quick, manufactured truths.

I won't make shorthand films, because I don't want to manipulate audiences into assuming quick, manufactured truths.

John Cassavetes quotes: An artist can accomplish anything provided he doesn't accept facts or defeat for more than a few minutes.

An artist can accomplish anything provided he doesn't accept facts or defeat for more than a few minutes.

John Cassavetes quotes: I think I'm probably one of the worst directors around, but I do have an interest in my fellow man.

I think I'm probably one of the worst directors around, but I do have an interest in my fellow man.

John Cassavetes quotes: You can defeat fear through humor, through pain, through honesty, bravery, intuition, and through love in the truest sense.

You can defeat fear through humor, through pain, through honesty, bravery, intuition, and through love in the truest sense.

John Cassavetes quotes: I hate entertainment.

I hate entertainment.

John Cassavetes quotes: The greatest location in the world is the human face.

The greatest location in the world is the human face.

John Cassavetes quotes: Film is, to me, just unimportant. But people are very important.

Film is, to me, just unimportant. But people are very important.

John Cassavetes quotes: I don't care about being on top, about being No. 1. I just make movies for a few suckers in the audience, anyway.

I don't care about being on top, about being No. 1. I just make movies for a few suckers in the audience, anyway.

John Cassavetes quotes: We don't take the time to be vulnerable with each other

We don't take the time to be vulnerable with each other

John Cassavetes quotes: 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.

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.

John Cassavetes quotes: (Acting) is an extension of life. How you're capable of performing in your life, that's how you're capable of performing on screen.

(Acting) is an extension of life. How you're capable of performing in your life, that's how you're capable of performing on screen.

John Cassavetes quotes: By the age of 50, I would like to know that I'm not dead - that there's some continuity to my life.

By the age of 50, I would like to know that I'm not dead - that there's some continuity to my life.

John Cassavetes quotes: Commercial movies have no feeling, no sensitivity. Most people tell me people won't understand films with feeling. But everyone can feel.

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

John Cassavetes quotes: 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.

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.

John Cassavetes quotes: People have said that my films are very difficult to watch, that they're experiences you are put through rather than ones you enjoy, and it's true.

People have said that my films are very difficult to watch, that they're experiences you are put through rather than ones you enjoy, and it's true.

John Cassavetes quotes: People who are making films today are too concerned with mechanics - technical things instead of feeling.

People who are making films today are too concerned with mechanics - technical things instead of feeling.

John Cassavetes quotes: We only have two hours to change people's lives.

We only have two hours to change people's lives.