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.

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

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.

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

Because 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.

If I have something I like to forget, then I forget it.

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.