Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.

I know virtually no one of my age who can remember a hug or a smile from their father or a 'Let's go play football.'

I've always loved 3D. In fact as a kid I was exposed to 3D at an early age because my grandfather was a specialist of 3D in cinematheques. And then my cousin put it in 'Science of Sleep' with toilet paper tube cities. But he was a specialist and I always wanted to do something in 3D.

I told my father I had to try political science for a year. He thought I was throwing my life away.

My mother and father were very strange people. They tried to be funny which is always very sad to me.

My father comes from a generation of film that actors my age don't even know about which is really sad.

When I look back at those pictures of my mother performing - and listen to her recordings - it makes me sad to think that all of that joy she found in her work came to an end. I wish she hadn't had to make that sacrifice even if it was for the benefit of my father and siblings and me.

It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.

When I seemed to be irritable or sad my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight and then say 'Just go to sleep.' Like all smart aleck kids I thought the advice was silly. But as I've grown older I've realized just how smart Knight was.

My great-grandfather was in the army in India and we have photographs of my family there in full Victorian dress. They're incredibly romantic.