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.

I think I have the only parents in the world who would not have said something against become an actress.

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

When I went to my parents I was at the University of Wisconsin, and I just couldn't wait anymore to go be an actress.

I'd wanted to be [an actress] all my life.

John Cassavetes was a year ahead of me but we met there. What you do when you are at a school for drama, you do a play as opposed to a final. Anyone who wanted to come could just come. So he came, and I can't remember the name of the play, of course, it was a long time ago.

Every sacred cow in the business has to do with economics.