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

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

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

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."

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.

People in independent film have a passion; they're not in it for the money.

So many people mistakenly think that the rest of his [John Cassavetes] pictures and the ones we did were improvised, which isn't true. He wrote all the rest of them.