In the 1980s, he worked as a grip on the series "Tales from the Darkside". In 1989, he produced the movie "Intruder", in which leading roles are Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell. He has also been the producer on many other successful movies including "Good Will Hunting", "The Mexican", the 2007 Academy Award winning movie "An Inconvenient Truth", "Kill Bill", "Pulp Fiction", and the "From Dusk Till Dawn" trilogy. He was an executive producer of the "Legend of Earthsea" TV miniseries.