Best quotes by John Cassavetes on Life

Checkout quotes by John Cassavetes on Life

• ‟ I think people are very stiff. Money makes people stiff, and we want it, and we have to pay the penalty. I never agreed with stiffness. I think people have an understanding of what their life is. I define success by being a realist and not humiliating people. I'm a revolutionary - but not in the political sense.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ 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.

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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.

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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.

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• ‟ 'Faces' became more than a film. It became a way of life, a film against the authorities and the powers that prevent people from expressing themselves the way they want to, something that can't be done in America, that can't be done without money.

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