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I used to watch my mother cooking when I was a child; she influenced me a lot.

I remember watching 'The Carol Burnett Show' with my parents as a kid. All those weird outfits she wore, like turtlenecks and long skirts, really stayed in my head.

My mom loved the old black-and-white films.

I work with kids, and I see certain things, so I realize now why my mother was so horrified and overprotective of everything that I watched.

My father was a tailor, my mother a machinist.

When I was a baby, my mom was always bringing me onto set.

My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid.

My mother did like to make clothes, and in I think the worst picture I've ever seen of myself - I must have been eight or nine - she'd dressed me in a matching t-shirt and Bermuda shorts ensemble which I think looked like somebody had thrown up all over it. I was so glad when that sewing machine stopped working, I have to say.

To be perfectly honest with you, having a mother as an actress - who I watched struggle tremendously during my childhood - and to watch fluctuations of ups and downs is difficult. She did mainly television, so I think I associated that with a life of inconsistency. As I've come into my own, I realize it has nothing to do with the medium.