My dad was a cop. My mom worked at various jobs - she worked as a homemaker, a bank teller, a bartender.

I saw a cop draw his gun and go inside (the bank) with a teller. This is very unusual.

My dad worked as an executive at Lockheed Aircraft and worked on the U-2 and things like that. My mother was a homemaker, and she was vice-president of the Democratic Council of California back in the '50s.

My dad had come from Ireland and worked in the mills. My mom was Scottish and worked as a domestic, ... I didn't have any relations who had ever gone to college. I knew I could handle the academics, but the mills were working. People were making a lot of money.

Redemption isn't giving a bank robber a job as a teller.

I worked at Warner Bros. for a while. I was the head of the minority talent casting. It was like pre-Spike Lee and post-blaxploitation era.