Nick Cassavetes quotes

“You just go in and try to do the best job you can everyday.”
-- Nick Cassavetes

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“My daughter, when she was a week old, was diagnosed with congenital heart disease. For the past thirteen years, she's had four major heart surgeries. She's a candidate for - and must have - heart replacement surgery in order to have a long life.”
-- Nick Cassavetes

Source : Interview With Scott B., www.ign.com. February 14, 2002.

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“I’m not saying this is an absolute but in a way, if you’re not having kids – who gives a damn? Love who you want. Isn’t that what we say? Gay marriage – love who you want? If it’s your brother or sister it’s super-weird, but if you look at it, you’re not hurting anybody except every single person who freaks out because you’re in love with one another.”
-- Nick Cassavetes

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“I like to give my actors a lot of room.”
-- Nick Cassavetes

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“Well, I think that people are smart enough to understand the difference between a movie and real life.”
-- Nick Cassavetes

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“When your child is sick, you have tunnel vision.”
-- Nick Cassavetes

Source : Interview with Scott B., www.ign.com. February 14, 2002.

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“We do have a problem in this country. You can either make a movie and ignore that, or you can acknowledge it and say, this is the water that we're living in. You know this - the movie lives in this - it's centered around this particular problem, and I chose to acknowledge it.”
-- Nick Cassavetes

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“I’m not saying this is an absolute but in a way, if you’re not having kids – who gives a damn? Love who you want. Isn’t that what we say? Gay marriage – love who you want? If it’s your brother or sister it’s super-weird, but if you look at it, you’re not hurting anybody except every single person who freaks out because you’re in love with one another.”
-- Nick Cassavetes

Source : "At Toronto Film Fest, Nick Cassavetes on Incest: ‘Who Gives a Damn? Love Who You Want’" by Sharon Waxman, www.thewrap.com. September 10, 2012.

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“You have to love what you do to want to do it everyday.”

“Our words can have power that we don’t think we have in everyday life. Anyone can make a difference!”

Source : "Amazing Kid! Spotlight on Adora Svitak, age 12, Amazing Young Educator, Author and Speaker". Interview with Kasy Dallman, mag.amazing-kids.org. September 2010.

“That overflowing feeling became love. But I don't sing for Ren's sake. I sing for myself everyday.”

“It’s precisely the people who are considered the least ‘likely’ leaders who end up inspiring others the most. Everyday people and everyday acts of courage eventually change everything.”

“A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.”

“If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.”

“I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.”

“Try lighting your house by prayer instead of electricity and see which one works.”

“I try to be as courteous as possible and sometimes try to tell my fans that as much as I appreciate their support, there are times where I need to be able to have an uninterrupted dinner or not have to take a bunch of pictures or just be able to do some of the normal things.”

“Right now I'm doing four shows at a time, trying to read four outlines every week, four scripts every week, and watching four rough cuts; it's a lot of good work. It's fun to do it, but it does wear you out.”