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

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

John [Cassavetes] loved actors. He gave them a lot of freedom. So if something came up that a certain actor just felt at the moment and said - that kind of improvisation he would accept. He gave very little direction.

So many people mistakenly think that the rest of his [John Cassavetes] pictures and the ones we did were improvised, which isn't true. He wrote all the rest of them.

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

John Cassavetes was a year ahead of me but we met there. What you do when you are at a school for drama, you do a play as opposed to a final. Anyone who wanted to come could just come. So he came, and I can't remember the name of the play, of course, it was a long time ago.

People in independent film have a passion; they're not in it for the money.