Cassavetes Quotes
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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.
— John Cassavetes
I've noticed that when people make vampire movies, they're always determining which of the rules they're going to stick to and which they'll abandon.
— Alexandra Cassavetes
The camera is the slave to the actor.
— John Cassavetes
You just go in and try to do the best job you can everyday.
— Nick Cassavetes
Well, I think that people are smart enough to understand the difference between a movie and real life.
— Nick Cassavetes
Ricardo Montalban is to improvisational acting what Mount Rushmore is to animation.
— John Cassavetes
The idea of love as a mysterious, undiscovered world has come to have no place in our innermost imagination.
— John Cassavetes
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
I'm a great believer in spontaneity because I think planning is the most destructive thing in the world.
— John Cassavetes
It was fun to create characters who had truth to them but were also made up so as not to completely offend!
— Zoe Cassavetes
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
Everyone who makes a film is at the major distributors' mercy.
— John Cassavetes
I got to grow up in an incredibly artistic family.
— Zoe Cassavetes
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He[John Cassavetes] was just being an actor. A very successful actor, especially in live TV. He did many wonderful performances.
— Gena Rowlands
I'm pretty sure a lot of directors would be thrilled to cast age appropriate roles. I am.
— Zoe Cassavetes
I hate entertainment.
— John Cassavetes
I won't make shorthand films, because I don't want to manipulate audiences into assuming quick, manufactured truths.
— John Cassavetes
You can defeat fear through humor, through pain, through honesty, bravery, intuition, and through love in the truest sense.
— John Cassavetes
I work hard and support myself.
— Zoe Cassavetes
I tell myself, 'If I can wake up each day and be excited about what I'm doing, then I must be happy.' But then again, maybe I'm in denial.
— Alexandra Cassavetes
I didn't plan to be a director until I was 35. For years I wanted to do anything but!
— Alexandra Cassavetes
The pressure for an actress to look good and be skeletally thin is insane and unrealistic and it's a subject I've been fascinated by.
— Zoe Cassavetes
As a writer, I wouldn't know how to not take things out of my life.
— Zoe Cassavetes
I think of making a movie in such a romantic way.
— Alexandra Cassavetes
My taste in films doesn't lead financers to think they are going to make a zillion dollars.
— Alexandra Cassavetes
I feel too strongly about rearranging reality in a movie. It gives me peace.
— Alexandra Cassavetes
I'm not cynical, but I don't really want to have a boyfriend or husband again.
— Alexandra Cassavetes
I think I'm probably one of the worst directors around, but I do have an interest in my fellow man.
— John Cassavetes
I'm not complaining about my life; every moment of it has been fantastic, and I'm so lucky.
— Zoe Cassavetes
An artist can accomplish anything provided he doesn't accept facts or defeat for more than a few minutes.
— John Cassavetes
Work very very hard. This business is no joke. Make sure you know what you want or you might be taking someone else's view instead of your own.
— Zoe Cassavetes
As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail.
— John Cassavetes
The vampire movies I embraced as a kid used vampirism as a metaphor that expressed deep sadness and a lot of human qualities.
— Alexandra Cassavetes
We only have two hours to change people's lives.
— John Cassavetes
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.'
— Alexandra Cassavetes
People who are making films today are too concerned with mechanics - technical things instead of feeling.
— John Cassavetes
I wanted to make an adult vampire film, not something for children.
— Alexandra Cassavetes
Of course I would change anything if John Cassavetes said so - it's his script. But he was very easy about that.
— Gena Rowlands
You look at people like Gena Rowlands, but she had [John] Cassavetes to write these amazing roles for her.
— Winona Ryder
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
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
God, I love John Cassavetes.
— Angela Sarafyan
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.
— Alexandra Cassavetes
When your child is sick, you have tunnel vision.
— Nick Cassavetes
I wouldn't say that I was an actress. I tried to be an actress. I really didn't have the gift.
— Zoe Cassavetes
Actresses feel immense pressure to keep up. Nobody wants someone who doesn't know how to market themselves.
— Zoe Cassavetes
Commercial movies have no feeling, no sensitivity. Most people tell me people won't understand films with feeling. But everyone can feel.
— John Cassavetes
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
(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
I don't know about relationships. Maybe I'm supposed to travel and make films and meet people and have adventures instead.
— Alexandra Cassavetes
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
I like to give my actors a lot of room.
— Nick Cassavetes
We don't take the time to be vulnerable with each other
— John Cassavetes
Talking to other people who make low-budget movies, everyone kind of has the same struggle.
— Zoe Cassavetes
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
The celebrity culture demands a camera-ready-at-all-times look or else the photo is circulated in a demeaning headline.
— Zoe Cassavetes
Film is, to me, just unimportant. But people are very important.
— John Cassavetes
I think the reason vampire movies have been so popular over time is that they share so many parallels with human beings.
— Alexandra Cassavetes
The greatest location in the world is the human face.
— John Cassavetes