John Cassavetes Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
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Life does not owe me a shred.
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I don't like the blame game, though.
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Sea Change was so specific. From the beginning it was set what it was going to be. All the other ideas that I had at the time I had to put to the side.
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A purpose of our lives is to broaden what we can understand and say and therefore be.
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I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.
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I get some heat for what English people call 'overproduction.' I don't think my older stuff was overproduced, but I do think that sound has dated.
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The most profound change that genetics brings about might not be scientific at all. It might be mental and even spiritual enrichment: a more expansive sense of who we humans are, existentially, and where we came from, and how we fit with other life on earth.
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Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.
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Nearly all edible seaweeds - or 'sea vegetables,' as they ought technically to be called - belong to one of three broad groups: green, red and brown algae.
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Let your emotions come out. If your behavior is flat, your game will be flat, too.
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My family never had a business background. We are artistes.
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They're not shooting me for deserting the United Stated Army – thousands of guys have done that. They're shooting me for bread I stole when I was 12 years old.
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In the South, we drink the Bible with our mother's milk.
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When I was working with Tom Ford, he would just look at me and ask, 'Will you wear it?' I'd say, 'Ah, too long, too short, lower waist, deeper V, unbutton' - that sort of thing. I don't create clothes, but I definitely know how to make them come alive.
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Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.
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I'm obsessive. That's the word for me. I obsess – perhaps to the point where it's moderately dysfunctional. I tend to put a book through about 100 revisions. If anything, that's an understatement. If there's another author out there who does this sort of revision, I would really like to meet him. Maybe we could form some sort of support group.
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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I'm in a sketch comedy group in school and I also do stand-up.
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There are people who drove me crazy, but they got the job done. And when I see that person again, I nod my head. Respect.
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If somebody would come and they're not playing music, they would encounter certain people on another level.
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To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.
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There is no better way to give comfort to an enemy than to divide the people of a nation over the issue of foreign war.
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Empathy is the faculty to resonate with the feelings of others. When we meet someone who is joyful, we smile. When we witness someone in pain, we suffer in resonance with his or her suffering.
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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.
