If I have something I like to forget, then I forget it.

It was more freedom than I think most people get when they're starting out - or even when they're not starting out. He [John Cassavetes] did his thing and I did whatever I thought.

Of course, much easier to do a film when you're doing an extremely emotional part than it is doing it onstage over and over especially.

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.

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.

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