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Though most reviewers treated Shadows as being about race problems, Cassavetes always thought of the film as more personal. Almost all of the scenes were based on his own experiences and feelings. In his early auditioning days, Cassavetes had once sung ‘A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody’ to introduce …

[...] To an interviewer who visited the workshop, Cassavetes somewhat vaguely described the classes as being designed to teach students to act ‘naturally’, so that their work didn’t look ‘staged’ or ‘artificial’. He said his goal was to bring ‘realism’ back to acting, and that the highest complimen…

In early 1956, Cassavetes and Lane rented a room on an upper floor of the Variety Arts Building at 225 West 46th Street (the site of the old Malin Studios) and invited friends to come and read scenes with them. A few months later they moved into the vacant ground floor which was available for aroun…

When his work doesn’t satisfy him, the actor can grow bitter. He knocks everything – knocks the political life, life in America, other actors, knocks himself – everything. That happens when an actor wants something so greatly and in his own mind doesn’t believe that he will ever achieve it. He has …

It’s that terrible ego. What I mean is: don’t be ashamed of your ego. Because it’s the only thing that’s gonna carry you through. Can you imagine going on a show and saying, ‘Jeez, I have to put all this armor on and I’m not gonna be good doing “Hark!” the best that ever was?’ An actor is a rare an…