Since his death in 1989, John Cassavettes has become increasingly renowned as a cinematic hero—a renegade loner who fought the Hollywood system, steering his own creative course in a career spanning thirty years. Having already established himself as an actor, he struck out as a filmmaker in 1959 with
Shadows
, and proceeded to build a formidable body of work, including such classics as
Faces
,
Woman Under the Influence
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
, and
Gloria
. In
Cassavettes on Cassavettes
, Ray Carney presents the great director in his own words—frank, uncompromising, humane, and passionate about life and art.