Influence.” Cassavetes believed in shooting almost non-stop, spending most of his filming budget on hours and hours of tape only to spend the next year or more editing it all down into a film. Many actors would have dreamed to work with Cassavetes, who allowed actors and actresses the freedom to create the character they were playing, to be free and open enough to put themselves “in a position where they may make asses of themselves without feeling they’re revealing things that will eventually be used against them,” as he said.
Some have pointed to Cassavetes humanistic and harsh portrayals of difficult and strange people, who wouldn’t know a BMW turbo if they saw one, as some of the most realistic acting