Growing up in any sort of spotlight is difficult. Everything is magnified.

I was the product of very young parents, and they had wild ways. My mother was in a punk band. Rebelling would have been learning to play piano.

I was worried - I wasn't sure I had the maternal instinct. But the minute my son came out, he was my favorite person on earth. I was crazily in tune with him, and I knew we were going to be fine.

Felicity Huffman is just flawless; she's above and beyond TV and movies and this Earth.

My favorite Oscar story was a year my brother had been nominated, my whole family went.

Even Milton Friedman - doyen of radical free market thought - was willing to consider some government intervention into primary education on the grounds that it is unfair for children to not get a chance in life because they were born to poor parents.

As natural as it is for a parent to talk about their child, it is for me to talk about my product.

Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.