willydanjonih:

On the set of A Woman Under the Influence (1974)

“I could never make an unrealistic type of picture… It would be awfully somber if people made only realistic films. However, that’s the best way I can work and if there’s no market for it then I’ll pack up as it’s the only kind of film I am interested in. If I directed a picture like Return of the Jedi or even worked on one, I would faint - I’d faint and never get up again I’d be so ashamed.”

-John Cassavetes, quoted in Cassavetes on Cassavetes