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

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.

Of course I would change anything if John Cassavetes said so - it's his script. But he was very easy about that.

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.

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

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

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.