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 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.

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

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

So after the Shadows he acted and directed. And it worked out very nicely. And he wrote, obviously.

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

I only watch my movies that I make once, so I can just see how it hangs together, but after that, I don't watch them again. A lot of people have disappeared from Earth that you've worked with, and they make me sort of sad once in a while, and there's really no necessity for me to watch them. I've made them, and it's on film and that's that.