John Cassavetes was there at night while I was working. After they [with his friends] discussed as much live TV as they felt they needed to, they started improvising scenes just for the fun of it and one of those scenes everybody got very interested in and it turned into Shadows [1959]. That movie was entirely improvised.

I think that I was lucky to have that period of time [ like coming to New York] because everything was so exciting and new.

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

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.

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

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

Paddy Chayefksy was writing and it was a time where everybody was happy to be there [on TV].