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It isn’t a desperate situation like A Child Is Waiting. These people aren’t trapped, they are always conscious of having a choice. My films strip characters of some of their illusions. Bring them to a little bit of understanding. The people come to some small awareness.

The main problem is findi…

My films are about personal things – marriages breaking up, love transformed by mutual treachery, the difficulty that two people have in communicating even though they live together. These are the problems which I have tackled and which concern me and concern others. Sometimes people find this pain…

Hollywood films rely on a distancing strategy that is absent from Faces. They comment on experience; they judge it; they tell us what to think about it; they offer interpretations. Cassavetes doesn’t provide any of these abstract ways of understanding. This is what makes all of his films so emotion…

If truth be told, it wasn’t entirely Polanski’s problem. Cassavetes was extremely difficult to direct. Everyone who worked with him testified to the fact, even directors who personally liked him and enjoyed his performances. Don Siegel, who was the closest of personal friends and almost always resp…

[...] Cassavetes had a falling out with him. Although at that point McEndree had devoted more than two years of his life to Faces, leaving his own family on a farm in Kansas while he worked on the film day and night, first in Los Angeles and subsequently in London (while Cassavetes acted in Rosemar…