Parenthood' has been the beneficiary of wonderful performances by child actors.

Honestly, I don't know enough about what's a good timeslot and what isn't. Either you have a timeslot where nobody is really tuning in, which isn't good, or you're in a good hour, and then you've got a lot of competition.

The environment in a writer's room, I've really come to feel, should be some form of democracy.

Parenthood' is a story about people's lives - the title helps. Very early on during the show's launch, the title was something familiar for the audience. It grabbed people's interest.

It's a sacred thing, but I do want to get married. I'd love that.

Arthur Miller wouldn't have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.

I was raised, myself, by extremely strict but also extremely loving Chinese immigrant parents. To this day, I believe that their having high expectations for me, coupled with love, was the greatest gift that anyone's ever given me. And so that's why, even though my husband is not Chinese, I try to raise my own two daughters the same way.