Worked as rock music director of campus radio stations during college years; read movie reviews over radio

Moved to California; after graduation from Stanford became a script reader while attending CIA's graduate school and free lanced for production companies

Sold first screenplay; got an agent; began working for studios

First major screenplay adaptation produced "Less Than Zero"

Producer and writer of TV series "Twin Peaks"

Wrote and directed the feature "Keys to Tulsa"

Produced and adapted "Elmore Leonard's 'Gold Coast'" (Showtime)