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don’t be upset by conflict

One of the reasons I make films is to make clear to people that family life is not always going to be a bed of roses. Don’t be upset if you fall out of love, because it’s gonna happen lots of times. Don’t be upset by conflict. The film shows that there is something to a one-on-one relationship, som…

—p.354 Cassavetes on Cassavetes A Woman Under the Influence (1972–4) (306) by John Cassavetes
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that little part of you that isn’t a con-man

There’s a very small part of all of us that has any kind of value. I think there’s a small part of us that says we’d like to say something better than what is usually said, on the purest level. And the rest of it is con-men and struggling people just like everyone else – where you’re constantly hum…

—p.315 A Woman Under the Influence (1972–4) (306) by John Cassavetes
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I would like to make a picture to really say something

After Minnie and Moskowitz, I thought, ‘All right, I would like to make a picture to really say something.’ The most important thing in my life, in Gena’s life and in the lives of our intimate friends was the idea of marriage. We were deeply concerned with the change in illusions that marriage enge…

—p.313 A Woman Under the Influence (1972–4) (306) by John Cassavetes
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I just record what I hear

Gena tells everyone that it’s hard to live with me because there is nothing she can say that I don’t write down. I see Gena around the house and with the kids and I tape record what I see. I do tape record things and exaggerate them and blow them up and the incidents are not the same. I mean, I’m n…

—p.311 A Woman Under the Influence (1972–4) (306) by John Cassavetes
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to put your life’s problems on the war

To rap Nixon, even if you don’t like him, is a cop out. To put your life’s problems on the war or the impending threat of the bomb is a cop-out, because everyone knows, and still feels, that it begins with you. That life begins with yourself and your relation to people, your feeling about them, and…

—p.300 Minnie and Moskowitz (1971) (269) missing author