Quotes

[on playing Ruby in The Hills Have Eyes (1977)] I was offered the role of Lynn, which Dee Wallace ending up doing, but I really wanted to be Ruby. Here was this challenging role of the animal girl, with dirt and leather and rattlesnakes, and saving the baby. I really fell in love with the character. I'd been up for a lot of parts like The Pom Pom Girls (1976), which were just T&A, and I never felt comfortable with that. The horror genre was much more to my liking.

[on working on The Hills Have Eyes (1977)] Once the shoot got going, I was Ruby. I mean, I was bruised, sore, cut, scratched... Wes [Wes Craven] would keep telling the crew, "Put more dirt on Janus - she's still too pretty". So I would roll around in the dirt outside the trailer!