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"I'm not really a director. I'm a man who believes in the validity of a person's inner desires. And I think those inner desires, whether they're ugly or beautiful, are pertinent to each of us and are probably the only things worth a damn. I want to put those inner dreams on the screen so we can all look and think and feel and marvel at them."

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Japanese poster for Cassavetes' Gloria, 1980.

Released the same year as another great American neo-noir, Malle's Atlantic City.

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Mia Farrow and John Cassavetes by Shahrokh Hatami, 1968.

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These three artists worked together for the first time in the 60's and built a relationship that would grow over the years to being loyal friends and some of the greatest of artistic collaborators.

GENA ROWLANDS and JOHN CASSAVETES and PETER FALK

"I met him at a Laker game and I was walking down the aisle to get a hot dog or something. We bumped into one another and it's like we recognized each other (…) John was teeming with feeling and emotion, and yet he was extremely intelligent. He was a wild animal." — Peter Falk, about John

"When I saw her, that was it! The first time I saw her in 1953, I was with an actor, John Ericson, and I said, ‘That’s the girl I’m going to marry.’" — John Cassavetes, about his wife, Gena

"I first met Peter Falk in 1969 on the set of a film called Machine Gun McCain. It was a good movie and a lot of fun to make with him. We hit it off and became good friends, Peter, John and I. That was the beginning of a long, close and very creative friendship. A very special friendship." — Gena Rowlands, about Peter

( Cassavetes directed his wife solo in 4 other films: A Child Is Waiting, Faces, Minnie & Moskowitz, Gloria )