A Constant Forge
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I try to find some kind
of positive way to make a world exist like a family.
Make a family-
not of us behind the camera-
not of the actors
but of the characters.
A world so that they can patrol
certain streets, patrol their house...
and know their way home.
And when they cease to know
their way home, things go wrong.
You somehow- drunk or sober,
or any other way-
you always find your way back
to where you live.
And then you get detoured.
And when you can't
find your way home...
that's when I consider
it's worth it to make a film.
'Cause that's interesting.
Mr. Sophistication...
and his De-Lovelies...
are not gonna take you to Asia.
They're not gonna take you to Europe.
They're not gonna take you
to South America.
We're gonna introduce
a new number tonight.
He's gonna take you
on a whole new trip.
And I know you're gonna enjoy it.
When I was 17,
I- I could do anything.
It was so easy. My emotions
were so close to the surface.
I'm finding it...
harder and harder
to stay in touch.
Do me a favor?
Don't be silly anymore.
Just be yourself.
But I am myself.
Who else would I be?
I'm serious.
Definition of"serious. "
Blah, blah, blah, blah.
Tell me what you want me to -
how you want me to be.
I can be that.
I can be anything.
You tell me, Nicky.
John Cassavetes thought
that love was the primary emotion...
that determined almost everything
that happens in life.
He was attracted to man's need for love.
We need it like food, water and air,
but we don't know how to get it.
But that's our struggle.
And what gets in the way-
ignorance, superstition,
greed, fear, defensiveness-
Who the hell knows what it is?
But all these things get in the way
with the one thing that we all need.
And that interested him.
All John said was, "Find out
who you are and keep looking for that. "
And the only way you can do that
is to take some chances...
and stretch yourself with people.
I don't know anyone that really
loved people as much as he did.
And with a real honest... passion
and a compassion.
As far as John was concerned,
each person was a jewel, you know.
Each person in the world, really,
that he met.
And I never saw anybody
because he had
this celebration going on...
with everybody that he dealt with.
He had an understanding
we were all a little crazy. He knew it.
And he was able to
get us to express it.
We should be respectful of that-
that we're all a little crazy.
We're all totally, uh, unique animals...
and full of majestic potential.
But all a little crazy.
And he showed us.
He told us that.
He had another look
at the human condition.
And not based on psychology, either.
A love-A love for people.
His love oflife, his love of emotion,
his love of feeling, his love of contradiction.
He was a force.
He was excited.
He was, uh -
He loved to laugh.
He enjoyed - He enjoyed people.
He enjoyed the way they made fools
of themselves. He enjoyed their struggle.
And he enjoyed trying to capture that.
That's what he wanted.
He wanted to get that on film.
So that there was very little distinction
between his life and his making of a film.
They were combined together.
When I show his films to my students...
I want them so badly to appreciate...
that it's notjust incredible filmmaking
we're coming into contact with...
but a different mode
of experiencing life-
a mode that asks deeper questions
than traditional films do.
A mode that allows for the messy,
the complicated...
the embarrassing,
the unpredictable.
Those, to me, are values in life,
notjust in film.
In anyJohn Cassavetes movie,
I think every three or four minutes...
there's some lightning bolt of reality.
Will you let me finish!
Because you're a man
who doesn't say what you mean very well.
What you meant was this was a wonderfu evening,
and you enjoy my house and you ike me.
But like you said, you're crude.
All ofhis films, in one way or another,
are depictions of sleepwalkers...
who have to wake up.
And the film is the wake-up call.
It's about viewers who have to wake up
and encounter reality freshly.
Of course, a lot of viewers resist that,
just as a lot of characters resist it.
It's largely responsible for the neglect...
and even the downright abuse
of his work in his lifetime.
I'm sorry.
I'm a stupid woman, and I -
This is very embarrassing,
and I'm just sorry.
It's just that there's such a difference
between what you dream about...
and what's really there, isn't there?
The exploration oflife
and what you possibly are doing here...
and trying to work out...
your problems and...
your differences and, uh -
Those were the things
that are fascinating to us.
And they were too embarrassing
for some people.
Um, but not for us.
I just don't love you.
I won't call my filmmaking entertainment.
It's asking questions of people- constantly.
"How much do you feel?"
"How much do you know?"
'Are you aware of this?"
"Can you cope with this?"
"What problems do you have
that I may have?"
What part oflife are we interested
in knowing more about?
I have a need for the characters
discuss it, kill it, destroy it,
hurt each other.
Do all the stuff in that war-
in that word polemic
and film polemic of what life is.
I have a one-track mind.
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