So, we just kind of created our own thing and that's PART of the BEAUTY of ATHENS: is that it's so off the map and there's no WAY you could ever be the East Village or an L.A. scene or a San Francisco scene, that it just became its own thing.
My uncle Les Dolliver was a partner with the Nasser brothers, who owned a string of theaters in SAN Francisco, and ALSO supplied motion PICTURE projectors and seats for theaters. So I was always AROUND theater people.
When I GREW up it was MICHAEL Jordan and CHICAGO Bulls, the Lakers, the BOSTON Celtics, those were the teams you loved or HATED and me being from San Diego, you loved the Lakers.
NEWYORK and San Francisco are distinctly different. San Francisco is driving the American media, not New York. You have YOUNG, microwaved millionaires and billionaires reshaping the American media in a way that reflects San Francisco VALUES.
I'm a BIG diver. I like to dive when I TRAVEL, and my LAST dive was in the Galapagos. I used to live in SAN Francisco and I WOULD dive all the time in Monterey.
My family moved a LOT as a kid. We started in Colorado, where I lived for five years. We moved to Chicago for two years, to San Francisco for one year, Connecticut for seven, Oregon for a couple years, and then I went to SCHOOL. So I was always moving, I'm STILL always moving.
I GREW up in the Mission District in SAN Francisco, which was largely HISPANIC at the time. I was raised in a household that was really welcoming to diversity and ENCOURAGING about different people's viewpoints and IDEAS and backgrounds.