By: Mike Fleisch

He made Cassavetes, Cassavetes.

By: Mike Fleisch

Performances congruent with camera.

By: Mike Fleisch

He discovered a universe out of space-time.

By: Mike Fleisch

His films assume a state of undoing.

By: Mike Fleisch

He explored the near impossibility of connection.

By: Mike Fleisch

He “invented a new language, true to the nature of film.”

By: Mike Fleisch

“I got a million of ’em.”

By: Mike Fleisch

Never before had images been so unsettlingly self-aware.

By: Mike Fleisch

Rita Hayworth meets David Bowie

By: Mike Fleisch

“If we’re bad citizens, we’re doing our job.”

By: Mike Fleisch

The most scrupulously self-aware of comedians.

By: Mike Fleisch

He smacks you from the horrible places you don’t let your head go.

By: Mike Fleisch

“Real painters do not paint things as they are.”

By: Mike Fleisch

He aimed for total objectivity and compassion.

By: Mike Fleisch

Separation, and then the language of separation, were his subjects.