Which Director Best Understood Human Nature?

John Cassavetes has a precocious, though near talentless, underclassmen's, sophisticated ideas of what drove human nature.   He has his characters really respond and react and react some more in really, big, over the top ways in response to colorless, shabby every day events; and this was to endow the scene with entirely misplaced scenes of verisimilitude.  His movies have as about to do with how people in the same way that carry on in the daytime soap operas.  Cassavetes has very childish notions of how adults speak and act and behave and it is childish and embrassing and, least of all, very pretentious.  I am not in thee last bit impressed by John Cassavetes, though I do like his wife, Gena Rowlands, who is so superior, and warmer, to him in almost every conceivable way..