- Being a native of Chicago, IL, he has filmed most of his movies there. His most common movies are action movies. He likes to use particular actors in most of his movies, such as Ron Dean and Joseph F. Kosala. These actors usually play cops and work together in any movie that they're in.
- Directed one Oscar-winning performance: Tommy Lee Jones in The Fugitive (1993).
- Was hired to direct the Arnold Schwarzenegger film 'The Running Man' (1987) but was sacked for being unhappy with the screenplay and started to rewrite it. He was then replaced by Ferdinand Fairfax who was also sacked by the producers for doing the exact same thing.
- He credits seeing Little Fugitive (1953) as being a major early inspiration for becoming a filmmaker.
- His main influences are Stanley Kubrick, Bernardo Bertolucci, William Friedkin, Federico Fellini, Norman Jewison, Sidney Lumet and Haskell Wexler.
- Attended Harand Camp of the Theater Arts in Elkhart Lake, WI.
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