John Cassavetes's Shadows Part I

[Cassavetes] worked in the dark when he made every one of his movies. That way of functioning goes against the grain of most of the rest of our culture. We're obsessed with knowingness. Our goal is to be "smart."...Cassavetes made movies very differently. He used filmmaking not to make points he had already decided on, but to explore aspects of his experience he didn't understand. In this respect, he functioned like a documentary filmmaker. Filmmaking was asking questions you really didn't know the answers to.