Anthony Hopkins said that he has long admired directors who took chances with their films such as John Cassavetes, Roman Polanski, Oliver Stone and Quentin Tarantino.

霍普金斯说他一直仰慕那些愿意冒险的导演，如约翰·卡萨维兹、罗曼·波兰斯基、奥利弗·斯通和昆汀·塔伦蒂诺。

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When I heard that this auteur sometimes took the lead in hisown pictures I envisioned a filmmaker-movie star as formidable as OrsonWelles and as handsome as Warren Beatty or John Cassavetes.

当我听说这位有着独特风格的电影导演在他自己的电影里演男主角的时候，我想像着一个像奥森·威尔斯[3]那样伟大的导演加明星，或者是华伦·比蒂[4]和约翰·卡萨维提[5]这样的帅男。

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Love never needed to conquer all in the bombastically sentimental films of John Cassavetes.

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John Cassavetes's reputation is currently on the rise, thanks to well-timed retrospectives of his career and an abiding need for filmmaker heroes.

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John Cassavetes, who made much of his money performing in action films, put that experience to work as the director of this hard, brooding crime drama from 1976.

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