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

Paddy Chayefksy was writing and it was a time where everybody was happy to be there [on TV].

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

I only watch my movies that I make once, so I can just see how it hangs together, but after that, I don't watch them again. A lot of people have disappeared from Earth that you've worked with, and they make me sort of sad once in a while, and there's really no necessity for me to watch them. I've made them, and it's on film and that's that.

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.

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

It was a period when live TV was just starting and getting popular and they took it seriously too. Not so much like TV now. They did Hemingway and Faulkner - and they’re all wonderful artists and it just was very creative at that time.