Biography

Was to produce a 2007 remake of Revenge of the Nerds (1984) starring Adam Brody but after three weeks of filming the project was canceled.

Won Pop Video of the Year Award from the Music Video Production Association for Sugar Ray's Fly, which he also co-wrote (1997).

B.A. (Psychology) University of California-Irvine.

Won Billboard's Pop Video of the Year Award for Smashmouth's Walking on the Sun (1997).

McGinty is his mother's maiden name.

I'm pretty convinced there's a chemical reality to who I am, regarding my brain, that makes me kind of a strange guy. And there's the behavioral component of growing up in a house where my dad would lose his temper a lot and my mother has a little bit of a hypochondriac streak. It doesn't take a genius to see the writing on the wall. I'm fundamentally a pretty neurotic guy, but I've come to terms with that.

I always remember responding very emotionally to film. I had a lot of lonely time on my hands because I wasn't really the best-looking kid in my town and I sort of pined after girls. I had to sort of immerse myself in the arts because girls weren't particularly interested in me.

There's no doubt that there's certain songs and arrangements of music that release a chemical reaction in my brain. This sounds a little goofy, but I really believe that. It's such a euphoric experience that I sort of want to chase that experience as often as possible. And it's also that set of chemical circumstances in my brain that makes me fucked up. So, you know, you take the good with the bad.

[on the rumored appearance of Arnold Schwarzenegger in Terminator Salvation (2009)] Our big contribution to visual effects is, for our movie, a certain actor as he looked in his mid-thirties. I challenged [Charles Gibson] and ILM to do something we haven't seen before and it's that actor, photo-realistic in our film.

[on Christian Bale] Christian's a good guy. Don't accuse him of being a bad guy because he's not. He loves his family, he has no entourage, he's an actor's actor and he operates from a place of passion.