I loved Bette Davis when I was little and when I was big and when I got old.

I'd wanted to be [an actress] all my life.

Never in my life have I ever even thought about anything else [ being anything other than an actress].

He[John Cassavetes] was just being an actor. A very successful actor, especially in live TV. He did many wonderful performances.

John [Cassavetes] had shot a great deal of Shadows and I had to go fulfill my contract in California, so he and all the rest of the Shadows cast came out to California and they finished it off and he cut it. He turned the garage into an editing room and he was by then a director of Shadows. That's the only thing he'd directed. But, he loved it.

I love independent filmmaking. I don't agree with a lot of it, but that's the point.

So after the Shadows he acted and directed. And it worked out very nicely. And he wrote, obviously.