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

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

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.

I love independent filmmaking. I don't agree with a lot of it, but that's the point.

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 thing and I did whatever I thought.

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

Never in my life have I ever even thought about anything else [ being anything other than an actress].

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 loved Bette Davis when I was little and when I was big and when I got old.

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.

This, in the end, is the prime purpose of a philosophy: to give us lucid ways to think about the world and how to live in it.

Why tomorrow when there is today?

The free conversation of a friend is what I would prefer to any environment.

Man walks the moon but his soul remains riveted to earth. Once upon a time it was the opposite.

It is my rather subversive opinion that a writer's feelings of anonymity-obscurity are the second most valuable property on loan to him during his working years.

I carry the landscape inside me like an ache. The story of who I am cannot be severed from the story of the flatwoods.

We don't have a lot of neighbors so we can blast the stereo

II know a little about Greek mythology. It's not that far away from the Nordic mythology.

A love astounds us or a pain consumes us and we forget that we glow on our own.

I haven't got a waist. I've just got a sort of place ... a bit like an unmarked level crossing.