Monday, February 12. 1968
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Are all actors psychotic?
By Vernon Scott UPI Hollywood Correspondent
"Actors are all psychotic. They're babies. They're innocent. And some of them are hypocrites."
Sounds like a disenchanted producer or a mercurial director, doesn't it?
John Cassavetes is the guilty party. And he has an explanation for his indictments.
But no. It is an actor making those sounds.
"They're psychoic because when they think they're not doing a good enough job they get angry at everything and everybody," Cassavetes said on a day off from his new picture.
"Actors have only their own perspective and guidelines to be as good as possible on the screen. And the only way they know whether they're good or bad it by the approval of people they're working with and by public acceptance.
"Anybody would be psychotic under those conditions."
Cassavetes doesn't exclude himself from the performing fraternity, although he has directed four films, enough to give him a better view of the stars and would-be stars in front of the cameras.
But why does he brand actors as babies?
"They rely on good reviews to see how they stand," he explained. "If they don't find them they seek compensation in their paychecks.
"How can an actor tell if he's any good except by the size of his salary. And that's no real measurement at all."
Billing is a factor, too, although Cassavessets didn't mention it. A fine actor with years of experience behind him, he takes second billing to Mia Farrow, who has made only two films, in "Rosemary's Baby" for producer William Castle at Paramount.
"I'm not a star," Cassavetes said. "I never have been. But the big difference between stars and actors is that stars need the approval of the whole world. An actor can settle for approval of himself."
Must be innocent
And what is this nonsense about actors being innocent?
"They have to be if they're going to give an honest performance," John answered. "They remain idealistic to accept roles with enough innocence to play them honestly.
"If you play a murderer, for instance, you have to be innocent enough to believe in the murderer's point of view. It's absolutely necessary or you can't call yourself an actor." And the hypocrites?
"Every actor I've ever hated personally is a hypocrite, dishonest within himself. And it shows on the screen."
"Actors and production people are natural enemies because they have nothing in common except their work. When that's over so is any meaningful relationship."
Performers can't be all bad, however. Cassavettes himself is married to actress Gena Rowlands. One would assume his opinion—that all actors are psychotic—doesn't apply on the home front.
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Mandelker declined to comment on the incident.
He also had no comment on reports of similar incidents in his 1967 fall semester classes or the reasons for his reluctance to teach students enrolled in ROTC programs.
Lt, Col. Charles H. Brown Jr., director of the University Air Force ROTC program, said ROTC officials would take no action on the incident.
"This is strictly a university affair," he said.
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