- Has creative roots in theater, and in tabletop role-playing.
- Learned the business of film through getting work as a financier of independent motion pictures.
- Eats a raw food diet.
- Frequently bicycles across Los Angeles rather than drive or take public transportation, for health and environmental reasons.
- Studies Jeet Kune Do under Sifu Marcus Lovemore.
- Managed a neuroscience lab for almost two years.
- Graduated from the theater department at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
- Is an alum of Phillips Andover Academy, class of 1996.
- Went to Space Camp three times, and Space Academy once.
- Practices meditation daily.
- Prefers working with actors who have a strong background in classical theater.
- Began his career as a lighting designer for stage production.
- Speaks fluent Russian.
- Names his top ten favorite films as 2001: A Space Odyssey, Fanny & Alexander, Solyaris, Autumn Sonata, RoboCop, Star Wars, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead, The Right Stuff, District 9 and Avatar.
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