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There is no real art in America other than business, and anyone who thinks that there is is crazy. People who are artistic and who are working for big companies are dead, are dead men. You can’t work for a big company and have any respect for yourself unless you’re out to make money. People plunge …

Women hated the picture, absolutely loathed the picture, with such a passion that it was unbelievable, simply because here were three men going off to London and not only having a sexual affair, but they were really out to fall in love with someone, and that was the ultimate disloyalty to the Ameri…

I’ve often been criticized for the unnecessary length of some of the
scenes in both Faces and Husbands. In some ways the length of the
scenes and duration of the shots are accidents in that they weren’t
planned before we actually shot them. But they are important to the
effect. I want to give t…

When people were walking out of Husbands and Faces en masse I never felt bad about that because I thought that it was pain that was taking them out of the theater and I thought that it wasn’t the fact that the film was bad. It was that they couldn’t take it without changing their own lifestyles, wh…

[...] The insuperable obstacle was that the contract with Columbia stipulated a maximum 140-minute running time. To achieve it, Cassavetes ultimately had to make enormous block cuts. It was extremely hard for him to make them. At the time, he said ‘the cuts caused me real physical pain, because I l…