I don't think films about elderly people have been made very much. I think of Cocoon and Driving Miss Daisy. But they always seem to be fairly successful, so it's a bit baffling as to why everybody has to be treated as if they were five-years-old.

My kids are really learning everything from scratch. It's our job to be their tour guides and camp counselors and orientation people. That's a weird responsibility, especially in a world that feels as good as it feels bad.

I tend to head for what's amusing because a lot of things aren't happy. But usually you can find a funny side to practically anything.

People think of you differently if you've been in their homes. They think they own you because they watched you while they were eating dinner, or they can turn you up or down, or even freeze you.

It's easy to get bogged down in bad news.

I'm hopeless - all I know is that time is going past so fast.

People say it gets better but it doesn't. It just gets different, that's all.