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A young man shouldn’t worry about being suckled, he should just go out and be a man. Go into a diner and sit down with a bunch of hardhats. Sit there and drink coffee with them and feel your manhood with them. Go to all the places you’re uncomfortable in and prove yourself, because someday you’re g…

In Cassavetes’ view, melodrama was the opposite of this indomitability. Melodrama was characters stopping to feel sorry for themselves – like Lelia or Bennie in Shadows or Zelmo in Minnie and Moskowitz – but was something his most interesting figures never do.

Robert Harmon, on the other hand, has intentionally tried never to have a center. He is a famous writer of bestselling books about lonely women – hookers, singers and the night life. But lonely desperation has become his life as well as his subject. He is in flight from the withering emptiness that…

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 …