“To have a philosophy is knowing how to love. “philos” in greek means friend or love - “sophy” meaning knowledge. It is the ‘study of love’. You can’t just put it anywhere. You’d have to be a priest or a minister, saying “ Yes, my son. Yes, my daughter. Bless you” but people don’t live that way. They live with anger, hostility, lack of money…tremendous disappointments in their life. So what they need is a philosophy. What everybody needs is a way to say where and how can I love? So I can be in love. So I can live with some degree of peace. I guess every picture we’ve ever done has been in a way to find some kind of philosophy for the characters in the film. That’s why I have a need for the characters to really analyze love. Dissect it, kill it, hurt each other in that word.”

- John Cassavetes