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 great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.
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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 want audiences to see me in different avatars.
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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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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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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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Anybody who writes a diary insists it must be read by someone else.
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We print money. The people that print the money is actually us. The government of the United States of America. By its very nature, we control that, and this system is there as representation of us.
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A lot of people at Shearson ended up making a lot of money because they had stock or stock options. Their kids were able to go to college, and it changed a lot of people's lives.
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Emotions come and go and can't be controlled so there's no reason to worry about them. That in the end, people should be judged by their actions since in the end it was actions that defined everyone.
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Republicans are the only one who can carry the banner of what I think millions of Americans are saying.
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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.
