Emma Walton Hamilton

We certainly had our moments when I was growing up. But the great thing was, if Mom was working on a night shoot, she'd be up making breakfast before school. ”

The arts are the most uniquely suited to provide young people with critical-thinking skills, problem-solving, teamwork and collaboration, empathy and tolerance and compassion, looking at the other point of views. ”

The arts give kids the building blocks with which to then play. ”

My mom's coping mechanism was to be strong and resilient. She is very compassionate and nonjudgmental. ”

I have a picture of me sitting on the step of a brownstone stoop with my mom and all the Muppets around us. And Perry Como, for some reason. ”

I was able to hide a lot behind ‘Walton,' and found that to be quite useful." ”

I think writing and reading are completely synergistic; not necessarily in that one has to be a good reader to be a good writer or vice versa, but that they so inform each other. ”

My husband, Steve Hamilton - an actor/producer and co-Director of the Southampton Playwriting Conference - and I had been working in the theatre in New York for many years. ”

Stony Brook is a phenomenal university and I am proud to be affiliated with it, so it is gratifying to be able to support this wonderful institution in whatever way I can. ”

And for me I think I was originally a theater person, a producer/director/actor. ”