To me,

It's difficult to keep that perspective, I think, as a parent: to know your boundaries as to what's good parenting or just projecting your own expectations on your kids. That's the hardest.

We have a drug problem. We have to do something.

I don't relate to machismo ... If anything, it's about letting go of the definitions we've had of men and women, and that women are somehow weaker. Not in the experiences I've had with women in my life: I don't find my mother to be weak, and my wife is certainly not weak. As far as men being domineering and physical and violent, my father is not. My brothers aren't. I hope I'm not.

So I was hugely thrilled that my first scene ever on camera was with Hal Holbrook.

I love being a part of something that is grassroots, and you can see the actual changes, the effect of what people do.