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.

all creative writers need a certain amount of time when they're creating something where nobody should criticize them at all - at all. Even if the criticism is valid or good, they should just shut up, and let that person create. Because at a certain point you have to make it your own - not the world's, but your own.

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.

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

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

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

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