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As Cassavetes worked on the film, Cosmo grew into a reflection on male psychology. In particular, he represented a meditation on aspects of Ben Gazzara’s off-camera personality. Gazzara was similar to Cosmo in many deep and half-veiled respects – most notably in his devotion to living a life of ‘st…

I could never make an unrealistic type of picture; I cannot work that way, but I admire people who can. I think Frank Capra is wonderful, and I think many of the early Lubitsch films were great. I even admire Dick Powell and his detective stories; he’s wonderfully talented in those areas and it’s a…

The films are a road map through emotional and intellectual terrains that provide a solution to how one can save pain. As people we know that we are petty, vicious, violent and horrible, but my films make an effort to contain the depression within us and to limit the depression to those areas that …

I see people like Bob Altman, Elaine May, Elia Kazan – great directors. These people shouldn’t be left alone. Somewhere along the line there has to be somebody who makes things easier. Not someone who says like most distributors, ‘Can you do it? Can you be a killer? Can you pretend that everything …

If somebody says there’s an art picture – I don’t want to go! They usually mean it’s beautifully shot, or they used certain techniques, or it’s about loneliness, an empty room with beautiful lighting. And somebody walks through and you hear some eerie music. Very few things come out of the people t…