67 Quotes by John Cassavetes

Film is, to me, just unimportant. But people are very important.

I’m very worried about the depiction of women on the screen. It’s gotten worse than ever and it’s related to their being either high- or low-class concubines, and the only question is when or where they will go to bed, with whom, and how many. There’s nothing to do with the dreams of women, or of woman as the dream, nothing to do with the quirky part of her, the wonder of her.

I'm not really a director. I'm a man who believes in the validity of a person's inner desires. And I think those inner desires, whether they're ugly or beautiful, are pertinent to each of us and are probably the only things worth a damn. I want to put those inner dreams on the screen so we can all look and think and feel and marvel at them.

I have a one-track mind. That's all that I'm interested in - love. And the lack of it. When it stops.

The most difficult thing in the world is to reveal yourself, to express what you have to.

I'm a great believer in spontaneity because I think planning is the most destructive thing in the world.

You can fail in films because you don't have the talent, or you have too much humility, or you lack ferociousness. I'm a gangster. If I want something, I'll grab it.

Everyone who makes a film is at the major distributors' mercy.

You can defeat fear through humor, through pain, through honesty, bravery, intuition, and through love in the truest sense.