What a marvelous artist and deep thinker. What has happened to Americans like him? They are a dying breed.

Cassavetes is a fucking inspiration to true filmmakers.

Cassavetes was an interesting filmmaker, no doubt. But I always regret he never dedicated himself more to acting. He was such a charismatic performer.

"John Cassavetes, who was more or less my age - now he was a great director. I can't imagine myself as his equal in cinema. For me he represents a certain cinema that's way up above."   Jean-Luc Godard, director of Breathless

This montage should be considered a National Treasure.

He was a reality artist. He knew what films to make. He did it on his own. He focused on human emotions. He was a True artist.

Without John I'd have been a bum, a nobody. He took the lens cover off my Bolex and used it as an eye patch in The Fury. He gave me £100,000 and ordered me to make Mean Streets.
Martin Scorsese

This guy was cool.  A real artist who walked to his own beat!

The Greatest Actors in The World John Cassavetes and Nikos Kourkoulos !!

The Ranting Of THE Independent FIlmmaker

Kindness and laughter should be universal languages right now. They’re love and life in action.

This guy impires me to Follow My Dreams and Create Art,John Cassavetes was a Real Filmmaker

@2:40 Amen Mr. Cassavetes.

John casavetes is a very sound man.

I agree love is the basis for all expression, no matter.  Emotion expressed as an art, theatre, music, creation.  Back in the seventies I was introduced to the work of Leo Buscaglia which professed how love is important in relationships, in our attitude and also appreciation.

I always come to this video for inspiration

I only found out recently that he was a serious director and auteur. Of course serious directors cease to exist once they embrace the alure and gaudiness of Hollywood. Which is why we're still talking about Spielberg and Cameron and not Bergman, Truffaut and Cassavetes. It's even harder for an actor like Casavettes to get proper praise because his films were not making the kind of money to finance further projects. It seems he was never going to make it big and he knew it.
I think in a hundred years time historians and artists are going to look back at the 20th century to try to get a pulse on the type of culture and people we were. Hollywood films will tell them fuck all about the human experience of living in such complex/ individualistic times but they may look to artists like Herzog, Tarkovsky, Altman, Lumet, to get a handle on what us normal people were going through at the time.
Unless of course the human race just gets more and more stupid and hedonistic as we rely on technology to solve everything or the opposite, and we move away from artistic expression entirely and movies may even lose their cultural meaning altogether.

What a great man to have stuck to his guns.

I find this really motivational

My favorite video on the internet