You just can't complain about being alive. It's self-indulgent to be unhappy. When asked how she has coped since husband's death.

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.

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

I just loved Bette Davis and the fact that I had a chance to work with her [on the 1979 TV movie Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter] was momentous.

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.

You just can't complain about being alive. It's self-indulgent to be unhappy. When asked how she has coped since husband's death.

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