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To tell the truth as you see it, incidentally, is not necessarily the truth. To tell the truth as someone else sees it is, to me, much more important and enlightening. It’s what these people are thinking, what they’re feeling. That’s the drama of the piece. Everybody just refers to their own experi…

Every single person on the picture, in the crew, was an actor. It makes a great difference. Actors really understand actors, and they’re really rooting for them. If something is very difficult for a performer, and the technicians are there, there’s pressure to get on with it; the technicians want t…

People who are making films today are too concerned with mechanics – technical things instead of feeling. Execution is about eight per cent to me. The technical quality of a film doesn’t have much to do with whether it’s a good film. I feel like vomiting when some director says to me, ‘I got the mo…

Just as Cassavetes accepted his own imperfections, and those of his friends, he accepted his characters’. He didn’t ask them to clean up their acts. He respected their emotional disarray. He did not hold their failures of communication against them. He empathized with their struggles. The artistic …

The absence of judgments takes us to the very heart of Cassavetes’ genius – and the reason his work confused (and still confuses) many critics and viewers. Faces is not satiric or ironic. It does not mock its characters. Cassavetes does not, in the Altman way, sit in judgment of them, separate from…