People who are making films today are too concerned with mechanics - technical things instead of feeling. John Cassavetes More Quotes by John Cassavetes More Quotes From John Cassavetes Ricardo Montalban is to improvisational acting what Mount Rushmore is to animation. John Cassavetes mount-rushmore animation acting I won't make shorthand films, because I don't want to manipulate audiences into assuming quick, manufactured truths. John Cassavetes assuming film want Art films aren't necessarily photography. It's feeling. If we can capture a feeling of a people, of a way of life, then we made a good picture. John Cassavetes photography people art We don't take the time to be vulnerable with each other John Cassavetes vulnerable The camera is the slave to the actor. John Cassavetes slave cameras actors There's a difference between ad-libbing and improvising. And there's a difference between not knowing what to do and just saying something. Or making choices as an actor. As a writer also, as a person who's making a film, as a cameraman, everything is a choice. And it seems to me I don't really have to direct anyone or write down that somebody's getting drunk; all I have to do is say that there's a bottle there and put a bottle there and then they're going to get drunk. John Cassavetes differences knowing writing Film is, to me, just unimportant. But people are very important. John Cassavetes film important people When I started making films, I wanted to make Frank Capra pictures. But I`ve never been able to make anything but these crazy, tough pictures. You are what you are. John Cassavetes tough able crazy I'm not good at comparing and contrasting. I take what's in front of me for what it is, although I guess there's something about Paul's realistic writing that is like Cassavetes. John Cassavetes compare realistic writing My parents allowed their two sons to be individuals. My family was a wild and wonderful place, with lots of friends and neighbors visiting and talking loud and eating loud and nobody telling the children to be quiet or putting them down. John Cassavetes parents family eating children I won't call my work entertainment. It's exploring. It's asking questions of people, constantly. 'How much do you feel? How much do you know? Are you aware of this? Can you cope with this?' A good movie will ask you questions you don't already know the answers to. Why would I want to make a film about something I already understand? John Cassavetes good you work people My mother and father were never frightened of anything. They always felt that they should go through life happily and without fear, and they did that. And it was a great boon to my brother and myself. John Cassavetes myself mother life father By the age of 50, I would like to know that I'm not dead - that there's some continuity to my life. John Cassavetes dead my-life age life I think I'm probably one of the worst directors around, but I do have an interest in my fellow man. John Cassavetes i-think think man worst I'm a great believer in spontaneity because I think planning is the most destructive thing in the world. John Cassavetes great think planning world The idea of love as a mysterious, undiscovered world has come to have no place in our innermost imagination. John Cassavetes place imagination love world The most difficult thing in the world is to reveal yourself, to express what you have to. As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail. You must be willing to risk everything to really express it all. John Cassavetes yourself feel you world I would put my pictures up against anybody's in this world. Certainly in my own day I bow to no one. I don't think there's another director in the world who works harder to make better films than I do. John Cassavetes pictures better day world I don't care about being on top, about being No. 1. I just make movies for a few suckers in the audience, anyway. John Cassavetes dont-care movies being care I hate entertainment. John Cassavetes entertainment hate