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The world is so downbeat, so cynical; people want something to believe in. At least, people do deep down, but they’re afraid to admit to humanities out loud for fear their friends and neighbors will think they are ‘square’. I get awfully sick of the mass flip attitude. I wish we weren’t so hard-boi…

McSorley gave Cassavetes a crash-course in screenwriting, and the two men worked together intermittently over the next five years on a variety of projects. Cassavetes later said that McSorley taught him the three most important things he knew: 1) that character was more important than plot, and tha…

The world is so downbeat, so cynical; people want something to believe in. At least, people do deep down, but they’re afraid to admit to humanities out loud for fear their friends and neighbors will think they are ‘square’. I get awfully sick of the mass flip attitude. I wish we weren’t so hard-boi…

If a man gets paid, say, $300,000 for directing a picture, it is hard for him not to compromise. When you work in a major studio, when the studio owns the story, you have to be very clear in your own mind why you are there. If you are there primarily to make money, then compromise is all right, in …

McSorley gave Cassavetes a crash-course in screenwriting, and the two men worked together intermittently over the next five years on a variety of projects. Cassavetes later said that McSorley taught him the three most important things he knew: 1) that character was more important than plot, and tha…