CASSAVETES

"A tax shelter is never a good film"

Cassavetes goes on about how the young filmmaker can get excited walking out of a film executive's office because he has been granted money and opportunity. Cassavetes walks out of that same office upset, not because he doesn't need the money, he does in fact desperately need the money, but John Cassavetes knows he can't take it. He knows taking that money will destroy any real possibilty of creating his art.

More...about the two versions of The Killing of a Chinese Bookie to come...