Love Streams Cassavetes Quotes

That’s it for today.

Physically, he’s changed again. The face more drawn, the skin more wan, and he’s gained weight in the oddest way. His face, arms, legs, and butt are skinny, but his stomach – his stomach has ballooned. He looks three months’ pregnant. His belly is huge and tight as a drum, as though his shirt has been buttoned with difficulty over a basketball. Cassavetes is a man of immense ego but little vanity. He either won’t or can’t get that stomach down, but he does nothing (like wear looser shirts) to hide it. He intends to play the belly as part of his Love Streams costume. The film’s Robert Harmon will be weighed down with Cassavetes’ belly, and on Robert Harmon it will be an emblem of the dead weight of his life. Cassavetes

months of this, he said, ‘Okay, enough.’ I said, ‘Enough what? What do you mean?’ He said, ‘I’ve heard enough.’ I said, ‘What do you mean, you’ve heard enough?’ He said, ‘For six to seven months now, I’ve been hearing you tell me how much you love Gena, and – enough!’ I said, ‘What?’ He said, ‘Yeah, what! Enough.’ He thought I was talking about GENA! Loving Gena, being in love with Gena, and missing Gena. He never once mentioned it to Gena. And he never once mentioned it to me, and accepted it totally – that if I was in love with Gena, all right, I was in love with Gena.

the way as the performances enhance and even change the original idea. This is not “improvisation,” this is like jazz: composition-in-the-moment.