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

I love independent filmmaking. I don't agree with a lot of it, but that's the point.

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

I got a part opposite Edward G. Robinson in a play called Middle of The Night, which Paddy Cheyafsky had written. It played for a long time because everybody just loved Edward G. Robinson, everybody in New York wanted to see it. John and I were married at the time and put into a position where I was working very long evening hours and he was working in the daytime and so there was a lot of spare time.

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

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

Because John Cassavetes was so terrific in live TV, a lot of his friends had not been able to participate in that yet and so they asked if he would gather with them at night when I was at the play and tell them what live TV was like, what you had to adjust to because it was its own medium - it had many things you had to be aware of.