"I like to torture my characters. I like to put them in impossible situations and see how they react."

"I steal from every single movie ever made."

"I don't believe at all in test screenings or sneak previews where you hand out questionnaires to the viewers to get their reactions."

"I don't care about what people say about my movies. I make them for myself."

"I think every movie is a genre movie. A John Cassavetes movie is a genre movie—it's a John Cassavetes Movie. That's a genre in and of itself."