A role to play, to protect, to find comfort, to know what to do, to have expectations, failing to achieve those expectations, keeping...

Almost everyone is interested in theatricality--because almost everyone wants to be funny; almost everyone wants to be dramatic; almost...

It is hard to accept that our efforts are mediocre when in fact they are.

Where does our responsibilities to others end our responsibilities to ourselves begin.

We are prisoners of a conformist world.

Life is a series of attempts to avert being exposed as a fool. But in the effort to do this we make even bigger fools of ourselves. ...

The only rules are that you do the best that you can. And when you're not doing the best you can then you don't like yourself. And...

It is us. it's us. Yeah, these people are me. That's the way it is, yeah--middle class, mundane, not very well thought out, living in...

Cassavetes: If I can, I will make films with non-professionals, people who crave to take part in something creative and who don't know...

It's very difficult for someone to reveal themselves. It's very difficult to say what you really mean, because what you really mean is...

In this country, people die at twenty-one. They die emotionally at twenty-one. Maybe even younger now. For those of us who are lucky...

The first half of the film fit any pattern of behavior. I know people who are just sensational one minute and absolute bastards the next....

There's this scene with Florence, the middle-aged lady, and the hippie. Here's this beat up broad out to seduce a young guy she picked...

One needs to awaken from a state of cynicism to the joy of life.

Creativity, solid creativity, no matter what it is, creates more things, more ideas, it doesn’t dissipate itself into one.

In youth there are no restrictions, in middle age there are restrictions.

This was going to be the name of the boxed set, but it is such a cool name, I decided to do a 5th lp and call it Crash On The Levee; the...