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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…

I agree with a lot of what the kids are saying, but it really disgusts me that most white militants hate middle-class people – and are middleclass themselves. That really makes me ill, because those kids ought to understand why their parents are middle-class, know about their parents’ fears; but in…

[...] I was bugged about the millions of middle-class marriages in the United States that just sort of glide along. Couples married ten, fifteen years, husbands and wives who seem to have everything – big house, two cars, maid, teenage kids – but all these creature comforts have made them passive. …