Gena Rowlands dies at 94

The world is held together by the wind
That blows through Gena Rowlands’ hair

Described by some this morning as an actor of "lacerating intensity" a phrase I enjoyed, and we will not see her like again

Le Ramasseur De Mégots

with her husband actor auteur film director John Cassavetes

"I was a woman with a plan. I knew the only thing, that could have really stopped me, in my opinion, was to fall in love.

I went in, at lunch, to put my books in the locker and I got to the doorway and … I saw John Cassavetes, and I thought : Oh, oh damn! No, no, no. No!

That’s just exactly what I don’t want.”

- Gena Rowlands [on her first meeting with John Cassavetes]