I don't think anybody wants to be heavy-handed, but there is a sense that you are in the family, come sit at the table.

Our deck is like the family room. But if you wanted to enjoy everything Tim has done down there, you had to walk down the hill, and it really wasn't conducive to sitting.

She had a weird, fleeting thought that she wanted to eat her sister, like a sorceress in a storybook – gobble her down into her belly, keep her safe.

I had one day with him, and he was asleep in the scene, but I told my entire family that I was in a scene with Michael Caine.

Disneyland was one perfect answer. It provided, an almost sacred space where it is permissible and safe to let one's guard down, take a risk, rediscover imagination, have fun, express emotion, play and deepen family ties. This is powerful stuff even today, in our nation of workaholics and two-working-parent households, and it was certainly powerful in the anxious 1950's.

I just wanted to play my game, which is being aggressive and taking it to the basket. I was frustrated with the way I played during the first two games, and I just wanted to be aggressive.