It was good for us, I suppose. Those kinds of times produce qualities in us that make us better for having had them. My parents were not getting along. My mother was quite intolerant of friendships that were being developed.

Only in your imagination can you revise.

Lillian Gish thought that there should be a cabinet position for the arts and I think she was right. I think she was right.

It was so satisfying for me - a great reward, just to see it done well. And it was beautifully directed by my daughter Susan Riskin. Imagine, a play about my mother directed by my daughter?!

There were shots of Kong pulling at my clothes, but only in horizontal and never from above. Never from above.

That was one time when my technique absolutely deserted me, I must admit. There was a wax face that he had created himself to cover his own ugliness. I was in his clutches and I had to hit him in the face.

Sometimes I worked with just a background of a rock or a tree or black velvet, and just had to imagine the whole thing.