The Films of John Cassavetes, Ranked

“To have a philosophy is to know how to love and to know where to put it, but you can’t put it everywhere. You’ve gotta be a priest saying, “yes, my son, yes, my daughter, bless you.” But people don’t live that way. They live with anger and hostility and problems and lack of money, lack of – you know, 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, can I be in love so that I can live with some degree of peace?” and so that’s why I have a need for the characters to really analyze...