Of course, much easier to do a film when you're doing an extremely emotional part than it is doing it onstage over and over especially.
Gena RowlandsOf course I would change anything if John Cassavetes said so - it's his script. But he was very easy about that.
Gena RowlandsI 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.
Gena RowlandsBecause 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.
Gena Rowlands