You must be willing to risk everything to really express it all.
From John Cassavetes
I would put my pictures up against anybody's in this world. Certainly in my own day I bow to no one. I don't think there's another director in the world who works harder to make better films than I do.
There is no reason why a serious film, one about life, can't be enjoyable, maybe even fun. Emotions can be very entertaining, you know. I try to use them generously in my films.
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.
The idea of love as a mysterious, undiscovered world has come to have no place in our innermost imagination.
No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive.
I hate entertainment.
We only have two hours to change people's lives.
I think I'm probably one of the worst directors around, but I do have an interest in my fellow man.
Commercial movies have no feeling, no sensitivity. Most people tell me people won't understand films with feeling. But everyone can feel.
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