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Ben Gazzara was unhappy with the role initially, unable to find a way to connect to Cosmo Vitelli. That changed when shooting a scene, Cassavetes spoke to Gazzara about the gangsters in the film as a metaphor for the people who are constantly trying to steal or ruin people's dreams. Cassavetes started to cry and Gazzara saw that playing Cosmo was representing John Cassavetes and the movie was a metaphor for the director's struggles for his own dreams.
David Bowie was often present on set during the filming and can be seen in shots of the crowd at Cosmo's Crazy Horse West.
This was actually a story idea developed by John Cassavetes and Martin Scorsese years previously.
Lead actor Ben Gazzara has said that he hated the film's original 135 minute cut as it was too long.
The original 1976 theatrical version ran for 135 minutes. About two years after the first release, director John Cassavetes in 1978 edited a new different cut with a running time of 108 minutes, it being twenty-seven minutes shorter.
"Cosmo Vitelli: Now, teddy. Teddy. Everything takes work. We'll straighten it out. You know. You gotta work hard to be comfortable. Yeah, a lot of people kid themselves, you know. They-they know when they were born, they know where they're goin'... they know whether they're gonna go to heaven,whether they're gonna go to hell. They think they know that. They kid themselves. Right? But the only people... who are, you know, happy... are the people who are comfortable. That's right. Now, you take, uh, uh, carol, right? A dingbat, right? A ding-a-ling.A dingo. That's what people think she is,'cause that's the truth they want to believe. But, uh, you put her in another situation, right? Put her in a situation that's tough. Stress. Where she's up against something,you'll see she's no fool. Right. 'cause what's your truth... is my falsehood What's my falsehood is your truth and vice versa. Well, look. Look at me, right? I'm only happy when I'm angry... when I'm sad, when i can play the fool... when i can be what people want me to be rather than be myself."
"Flo: That jerk Karl Marx said opium was the... religion of people. I got news for him, it's money."
