Every sacred cow in the business has to do with economics.

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

all creative writers need a certain amount of time when they're creating something where nobody should criticize them at all - at all. Even if the criticism is valid or good, they should just shut up, and let that person create. Because at a certain point you have to make it your own - not the world's, but your own.

It was a very hard play [Woman Under the Influence] to do every night. And John Cassavetes said, "Don't worry. Don't even think about it, you're right. I hadn't thought of that." He said, "Just forget it."

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

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.

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