Husbands

“Oh, and this is, in fact, Husbands. That’s the movie that these three guys came on and made total asses of themselves. You can find it online as “The Worst Show Dick Cavett Ever Did.” They goofed around for the whole time and did very funny things, like taking your shoes off and smelling their feet. Afterwards, John Cassavetes himself chewed them out mercilessly and said, “You have just unsold most, if not all, of the tickets to this movie,” and they were like three kids.”

“Husbands. Done. I’m going to take this. So, yeah, this shot, specifically, this is very inspiring, just for a lot of things that I’ve done recently. Specifically how it kind of captures the actors free in the frame, long lens, is just, like, remarkable. And the performances here are just out of control. I remember actually, the first time I saw this movie, it was in 4:3, and then when I finally saw the widescreen version, it was the scene of him on the telephone.”

“I started making movies about myself and my friends and the desperate stuff that we did, and that was heavily influenced by John Cassavetes. Husbands is one of his lesser-known movies and less celebrated movies. It happens to be my favorite. There’s a very simple operating principle with Husbands, which is: a group of guys, one of them dies, and those guys go nuts. They go on an adventure... And it’s a weirdly well-built driver of a movie. And they improvised the whole damn thing.”

“Anything with Cassavetes is a winner as far as I'm concerned it took your Mother to see this movie on our first dates yeah Husbands Cassavetes cool so I think she liked it she did she didn't like the chairs at the Film Forum she complained about the chairs but I think she liked the movie.”

“Why not Husbands? Why not? Because I can't think of anything more fun than the thing of the clash of acting styles that go on in this. Everybody is fighting for territory. You can almost, you listen closely, hear John Cassavetes' maniacal cackle watching these guys go nose to nose, tear duct to tear duct with each other.”

“Oh Husbands I love that film it was for me a whole new kind of film when I saw that for the first time in fact I used to show that to my students... This was so new this improvising and a bit gritty and I really love that... I snuck myself into the theater and was sitting at the very end somewhere trying to hide and I watched the rehearsal... Cassavetes said hi Barbara and I thought what and they asked me if I wanted to have lunch with them.”