Partner in Good Machine, an indie-film company, with friends Ted Hope
and David Linde. Bought by Universal Pictures and merged into a new
division of the studio called Focus, June 2002.
Co-President of Focus Features, the arthouse offshoot of Universal
Pictures.
His novelist wife Nancy Kricorian is a member of the antiwar activist group CodePink: Women for Peace.
Suffered from psoriasis when he was growing up.
He attended Kosmorama, Trondeim International Filmfestival, in 2006 with his movie "Brokeback Mountain".
Earned three degrees from the University of California, including a Ph.D. in English.
Studied 16mm filmmaking under Babette Mangolte at the Collective for Living Cinema in New York.