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My mother, Dorothy Watson, had met my father in a Greek class at Northwestern University.

I really wanted to work with David Lynch. I was a big fan of The Elephant Man and Eraserhead.

I just thank my father and mother, my lucky stars, that I had the advantage of an education in the humanities.

I loved my mother and father.

My mother was keen that I complete my graduation and never ever wanted me to be in the movies, as my father had made five films that lost money. One of the films he made was 'Agneepath,' which was hugely hyped but underwhelming at the box office, and I remember that my dad had to sell my grandmother's flat to pay off the loan.

My mother and father were interested in the arts.

It's both Indiana Jones and 'National Geographic' that inspired me to be an Egyptologist.

When I was young, I didn't like going to school, but I loved my dad. He was my professor.

While my parents never had the time or money to secure university education themselves, they were adamant that their children should. In comfort and in love, we were taught the joys of knowledge and of work well done. I only regret that neither my mother nor my father could live to see the day I would accept the Nobel Prize.

My father was a golden boy from a very small town. He won a very prestigious law scholarship to NYU Law School, and there in Greenwich Village, he met my mother, who was very young, fresh off the boat from Germany.