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.

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

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.

You just can't complain about being alive. It's self-indulgent to be unhappy. When asked how she has coped since husband's death.

A Woman Under the Influence was my favorite. I loved doing that. And it was challenging.

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.

John [Cassavetes] loved actors. He gave them a lot of freedom. So if something came up that a certain actor just felt at the moment and said - that kind of improvisation he would accept. He gave very little direction.