What always inspires me is not the movie but the journey in making the movie. It might work or it might not but we are gonna give it our best from start to finish as well as have great conversations unexpected laughs and a feeling like we’re really doing something and not just making money. I was in a couple of pictures but I was on my own. I just couldn’t relate. I talk honestly and there’s an uncomfortable silence in the room. I talk conventionally and everything’s fine. There’s no exploring and there’s no real moments. Just two different types of animals. His films were about moving that pain trauma so we can get to the real love that we feel and we are.
After seeing Cassavetes' films, I can understand how the rest of the American cinema can feel like "fluff", as he says. “I don’t think a person can live without philosophy. What is philosophy? Philos in Greek means “friend” or “love”. “Love” and “friend” are synonymous. And the study of it is the study of love. To have a philosophy is to know how to love - and where to put it, because you can’t put it everywhere, you walk around - you’ve got to be a minister or a priest, say “Yes my son” or “Yes my daughter”, “Bless you”, but people don’t live that way. They live with anger, and hostility, and problems, lack of money, tremendous disappointments in their life - so what they need is a philosophy. I think what everybody needs is a way to say: Where and how can I love and be in love so that I can live, so I can live with some degree of ease…” - John Cassavetes,
I would advise John that the movie of the making of his movie, is 100 percent better than the movie. My God would I love to listen to Cassavetes and Tarr having a conversation. What a tragic loss at just 60 he was. Artistic intensity.
"I came across this quote from Japanese director Shinji Aoyama today: “When I think about Cassavetes, I always feel happy. I feel glad that I like movies. I’m sure I will always feel this way until the day I die, and I intend to feel this way too. At the end of Love Streams, Cassavetes smiles as he sees the dog next to him, which turned into a naked man. I live my life always wishing I can smile like that.” - A Darkened Room: Love Streams, writers William Boyle and Jimmy Cajoleas discuss John Cassavetes’s Love Streams.
Ms Rowlands gives multiple meanings and level perspectives in Cassavetes' films* She is wonderful*** No one else would sense his vision and temperament so well
"We're making a picture about inner life. And nobody really believes that it can be put on the screen ... I don't believe it either, but screw it." - John Cassavetes
Damn John comes off as a mad genius kind of man. He always seemed very intimidating and I’m not sure why. Polanski said he was a pain in the ass on Rosemarys Baby. I guess at 46:03 kinda of confirms it. Still a legend.
I love everything about this brilliant man… including his voice… What a bastard he must’ve been to work with. How privileged to be one who’s had the chance. 🎥 🎞
This film was made in 1984 and I believe Cassavetes died in 1989 from liver cirrhosis. In this clip he appears cachectic with abdominal swelling likely from ascites secondary to decompensated liver cirrhosis. He seemed like an amazing actor and director
I wish more directors had his attitude, him and Gena Rowlands were brilliant, I've been watching all his films recently but love streams is the one I haven't seen yet, I look forward to seeing it.
Love in conflicting human relationships, love as a remedy for loneliness and anguish. As he says in the documentary: "All I'm interested in is love". Even if we are sometimes obliged to blacklist people because we find them too nihilistic. I love John Cassavetes. I immediately fell in love with his films, which are about real life.
Jhon è stato un regista coraggioso e moderno, al di fuori degli stereotipi hollyvoodiani, tanto moderno che è stato vicinissimo all'oscar perché un talento esce fuori anche se incompreso. Il mondo lo conosce per Rosemery Baby, dove si vede pochissimo ma il suo volto lasciò un segno speciale. Credo quello che lui odiava essere. I suoi film sono restati unici gioielli di nicchia. Meglio così. Solo pochi ne avranno accesso. Scavare nei sentimeni controversi è cosa difficile. Forse solo chi lo amava e conosceva a fondo avrebbe potuto farlo. Gena Rowland, una attrice e donna eccellente.
