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As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail.

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

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.

From John Cassavetes

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?

From John Cassavetes

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.

From John Cassavetes

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

From John Cassavetes

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

From John Cassavetes

I won't make shorthand films, because I don't want to manipulate audiences into assuming quick, manufactured truths.

From John Cassavetes

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

From John Cassavetes

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.

From John Cassavetes

John Cassavetes

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