"When a scene plays awkwardly or something goes wrong, I don't criticize it, change it, or call cut. I look at it and say, alright, it's not exactly the right reading, but life doesn't always have the right meaning. We stutter, we stammer through life. We sometimes say things we're sorry for later. We make fools of ourselves constantly. In life this is frowned upon, but in a movie this is revealing. The mistakes that you make in your own life, in your own personality, are assets on the film. So if I can just convince somebody not to clean themselves up, and not to be someone they're not and just be what they are in a given circumstance, that's all that acting is to me."
(in his book "Shadows", Ray Carney quotes John Cassavetes).
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