My Coffee With Lawrence Tierney

Actor Lawrence Tierney played mobster Joe Cabot in Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs.

In 1991, my mom worked as a production coordinator on a low-budget movie shot largely in downtown Los Angeles. Midway through production, she called to tell me about the young director beguiling the crew with his boundless energy and enthusiasm. “He’s reminding everybody why we got into movies,” she said.

The film was Reservoir Dogs and the director was Quentin Tarantino.