“Shadows, 1959. My God, to think that he actually in 1959 decided to try to make a movie on his own without having any kind of studio. The fact is that a guy who was an actor decided he wanted to try to make movies and do it his own way. I mean, that's what makes Cassavetes so amazing, that he just said, 'Look, I want to do this, these are the people I want to work with, this is a story I want to tell.'”