John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands on the set of A Woman Under the Influence (1971)
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Ben Gazzara was unhappy with the role initially, unable to find a way to connect to Cosmo Vitelli. That changed when shooting a scene, Cassavetes spoke to Gazzara about the gangsters in the film as a metaphor for the people who are constantly trying to steal or ruin people’s dreams. Cassavetes started to cry and Gazzara saw that playing Cosmo was representing John Cassavetes and the movie was a metaphor for the director’s struggles for his own dreams.(x1) (x2)
Lauren Bacall and David Lynch photographed by André Rau.
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French painter Henri Matisse at his home, villa Le Rêve, France, 1944
by Henri Cartier-Bresson
“If it were all in the script, why make the film?”
Nicholas Ray
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