Life is not a matter of place things or comfort rather it concerns the basic human rights of family country justice and human dignity.

I grew up in a family of strong women and I owe any capacity I have to understand women to my mother and big sister. They taught me to respect women in a way where I've always felt a strong emotional connection to women which has also helped me in the way I approach my work as an actor.

It never occurred to me that I wouldn't go to college and have a career - as well as a family - of my own. Both my parents but especially my mother encouraged me and led me to believe that it was possible.

A family is very special. So when a family splits up it's not good it's never good.

It's not an accident that both my sister and I are writers. Our parents created an accidental Petri dish. My family has great storytellers and I grew up in a very funny conversational house and didn't have television. This small family farm was a bubble world that didn't have much to do with reality.

I have a great family by the way but you need to find people who can pull something out from you that might be otherwise unseen.

I'm not ready to get married but I have a pretty great family and I'd like that too someday.

I think that's become passe but if you can surround yourself with a kind of monument to yourself and your family - a statement - and you can afford it then that's a noble project.

For my own family I would always choose the makeshift surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.

I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist the solo flute for Toscanini.