The focus of our family life was homework and what was for dinner; getting to ballet rehearsal and getting my brother to soccer.

When I was in high school and college, my other real focus was, actually, fiction writing. So in college, I had done all these seminars with these various writers-in-residence.

For a long time I was cautious of working with my parents because I wanted to feel separate from them in the community. Now there's no more wasting time.

I will say that I've been lucky enough never to have to do a job I didn't want to do, or a play I wasn't in love with.

It's sort of scary to work with your parents when you're in the same business. But there was something so very safe about that. Acting with her was just like working with a wonderful actress who just happens to be my best friend and also my mother.

Sometimes I would go home from work and just stare at the wall for a couple of hours. But, I can't complain. Whatever knocks you out working is the kind of work that I want to be doing because it's always those challenges that are the most exciting, and the things I hope to get to keep doing in my work.

All I really want to do is someday be in a western. If I could be on a horse with a rifle, I would be a really happy camper.