Hired by Steven Spielberg on joining the Amblin Productions company in 1980.
He met Cybill Shepherd on the set of The Last Picture Show (1971) and they worked on several films and albums together for the next ten years. They also had a on-and-off love affair, and Cybill had written that they had an "enduring passion.".
Graduated, with Greg MacGillivray, from Newport Harbor High School in Newport Beach, California, in 1964. Anthony Zerbe and Paul Le Mat also attended the same school.