Loaned George Clooney $100 to pay for headshots when Clooney was still a struggling actor.
Transitioned from being a character actor to behind-the-camera work in the early 2000s, receiving his first coproducer credit on the 2003 film Intolerable Cruelty.
In 2005, he and his wife used their airline miles to purchase 16 plane tickets to evacuate survivors of Hurricane Katrina; they also opened their home to a family who had lost everything in the storm for five months while they put their lives back together.
Cofounded the production company Smokehouse Pictures in 2006 with his longtime friend George Clooney.