As soon as you become a parent, everyone gives you their parenting advice. It's like an onslaught of information about how other people do it.

Parenting is meant to be just a natural part of life. You just think you know how to do it but, of course, it's much more complicated than that.

Everyone has a point of view about corporal punishment.

There's something great about being on location with a bunch of people - there's a camaraderie and intimacy that builds up over time.

People who don't know how old I am can cast me as the woman in 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' and can cast me as Stella in 'Streetcar Named Desire,' and they are miles apart.

'The Slap' is not like anything else. It's an incredibly well-written novel that has been turned into a great and intriguing series that reveals both less and more about each character than you learn in the book. It's a novel that has been given a second chance to live.