California Quote by Gena Rowlands
![“John [Cassavetes] had shot a great deal of Shadows and I had to go fulfill my contract in California, so he and all the rest of the Shadows cast came out to California and they finished it off and he cut it. He turned the garage into an editing room and he was by then a director of Shadows. That's…” quote by Gena Rowlands](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ac3/gena-rowlands-15239_california_john-cassavetes-had-shot-a-great-deal-of_2280824.jpg)
“John [Cassavetes] had shot a great deal of Shadows and I had to go fulfill my contract in California, so he and all the rest of the Shadows cast came out to California and they finished it off and he cut it. He turned the garage into an editing room and he was by then a director of Shadows. That's the only thing he'd directed. But, he loved it.”
![“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 right. I hadn't thought of that." He said, "Just forget it."” quote by Gena Rowlands](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d9a/gena-rowlands-15239_every-night_it-was-a-very-hard-play-woman-under-the_196187.jpg)
![“I'd wanted to be [an actress] all my life.” quote by Gena Rowlands](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/82a/gena-rowlands-15239_actresses_i-d-wanted-to-be-an-actress-all-my-life_375002.jpg)
![“John Cassavetes was there at night while I was working. After they [with his friends] discussed as much live TV as they felt they needed to, they started improvising scenes just for the fun of it and one of those scenes everybody got very interested in and it turned into Shadows [1959]. That movie…” quote by Gena Rowlands](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8fc/gena-rowlands-15239_felt_john-cassavetes-was-there-at-night-while_425534.jpg)
![“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.” quote by Gena Rowlands](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/78b/gena-rowlands-15239_people_so-many-people-mistakenly-think-that-the_896716.jpg)
