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It was almost comical that he had gained the reputation as the man who worked without a script. Writing had been a passion throughout his life. He wrote and revised dozens of scripts and plays over the course of the next few years, and systematized a practice he had begun more desultorily in the mi…

I don’t think the path I’ve taken has been a deliberate choice. People do what they’re capable of doing. If I could take a lot of money from studios and enjoy myself at cocktail parties, I probably would make a conscious effort to take that route. I’m just not capable of doing it. My filmmaking is …

I think that people are bored with entertainment, but they have nothing else and they would prefer to see something that has to do with their lives. Now, movie companies aim everything at a fourteen-year-old mentality. Well I’m not fourteen and I want to be aimed at too. I want to be told something…

The film is utterly without interest and the action-centered plot allowed Cassavetes to do almost no memorable acting, with the single exception of his final scene on screen – in which he came up with the idea of playing the most evil lines he has in the entire film with diabolical gentleness. As p…

I think that there’s a pull and a push between whether you’re an individual, as I feel right now, or whether you are a part of society, and I think we are, all of us, pulled and pushed between these two things constantly. And you keep on saying, ‘Do I want to be what I am?’ or ‘Do I want to be part…