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My father was never really the con-man type that the film shows him to be: he was straight as an arrow, though he did have problems with the IRS.

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

My mother's a police officer, so there was only so much trouble I could get myself into. But my father grew up on the other side.

My dad was a New York City cop. His father was a New York City fireman. And my mother's dad was a city taxi driver.

My father ran London Films. He made films like 'The Red Shoes,' 'The Third Man.' And he had had a long career in the film business, which was bifurcated with a career in intelligence. He had to deal with gangsters, and sometimes he would take me with him. Also, I went to school with their children.

My father was an actor, and my mother was his agent, so I had it on both sides: the crazy actor and his representation.

My dad was an immigrant kid and a Democrat and a Jew, and we didn't know any Republicans in our group. So I grew up Democratic. My dad was a labor lawyer - a very hardworking guy, a one-horse labor lawyer - and then I went to hippie college and lived in the bubble.