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Well I'll tell you, those movies I did in the 70's are remarkable. It didn't occur to me at that point that any of those films that I was doing were ever going to be part of the "cult genre" of films, which they've become. I was just sort of using them as a stepping stone to hopefully move on to some more mainstream films and different kinds of parts than those. It's still a complete surprise to me. I'm really proud that I did all of them, but I'm still amazed at how many people know them and know my work in them and everything.

I'm just hoping that the new things that I'm doing will become part of my legacy and people will remember those as well, because I'm actually a better actress now than I ever was. I'm sure that that shows and comes through. Now, I'm playing a character, whereas back then, I just played myself being crazy. I'm getting to play all different kinds of people, and that's very exciting and challenging.

As for remakes, I think everybody know is trying to remake and kind of recapture what that was, and you really can't recapture it because it was an adventure then. It was new. It was different. People were doing it not just because it was a job, but because, obviously, the money wasn't that great, but we were doing it because it was an art and we wanted to do it. We didn't rely then on special effects and all those things everyone relies on now. When we did the original La Nuit des fous vivants (1973), we didn't have seven levels of makeup to show that you were crazy by the end. You had to act it. You had to be it.