When I went to my parents I was at the University of Wisconsin, and I just couldn't wait anymore to go be an actress.

A Woman Under the Influence was my favorite. I loved doing that. And it was challenging.

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

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.

When I went to my parents I was at the University of Wisconsin, and I just couldn't wait anymore to go be an actress.

[John Cassavetes] came backstage afterwards and introduced himself and we talked a bit, and then went for a little coffee at the Russian Tea Room next door. It just...started.