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.

John [Cassavetes] had shot a great deal of Shadows and I had to go fulfill my contract in California, so he and all the rest of the Shadows cast came out to California and they finished it off and he cut it. He turned the garage into an editing room and he was by then a director of Shadows. That's the only thing he'd directed. But, he loved it.

I read the script of [Woman Under the Influence ] 50 times. And I thought about it. And then I did it.

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

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.

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

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.