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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

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The camera is the slave to the actor.

~John Cassavetes

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

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I think I probably have the philosophy of a poor man. You know, like maybe I'd steal the pennies off a dead man's eyes.

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You know as a director what you want, but the film is smarter than you, the film says no, the film says there's something more here.

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We have problems, terrible problems, but our problems are human problems.

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People have said that my films are very difficult to watch, that they're experiences you are put through rather than ones you enjoy, and it's true.

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We only have two hours to change people's lives.

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People don't know what they are doing most of the time. They don't know what they want. It's only in 'the movies' that they know what their problems are and have game plans to deal with them.

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

~John Cassavetes

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: December 9th, 1929

Died: February 3rd, 1989

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