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

I went to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, which was in Carnegie Hall, which itself was exciting - just to walk into it..

all creative writers need a certain amount of time when they're creating something where nobody should criticize them at all - at all. Even if the cr….

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..

It was more freedom than I think most people get when they're starting out - or even when they're not starting out. He [John Cassavetes] did his thin….

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

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

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 disa….

John Cassavetes wrote A Woman Under the Influence as a play. He said, "Hey, I wrote you a play." And I said, "Great, let's read it." I read it and I ….

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..

It was a very hard play [Woman Under the Influence] to do every night. And John Cassavetes said, "Don't worry. Don't even think about it, you're righ….

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 k….

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

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

Bette Davis had very strong opinions and was not afraid to express them. She wasn't afraid of anything that I ever saw. And she was so funny. She's j….

After you play a part, you think of it as your own..

[John Cassavetes] came backstage afterwards and introduced himself and we talked a bit, and then went for a little coffee at the Russian Tea Room nex….

I just loved Bette Davis and the fact that I had a chance to work with her [on the 1979 TV movie Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter] was m….

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

So I went home and I told my mom that I wanted to quit and be an actress and she said, “Huh, that sounds fascinating. It’s wonderful!” And I told my ….