During the editing of the film he clashed with producer Robert Stigwood who reportedly wanted dialogue scenes removed and replaced with more musical sequences, so that the accompanying soundtrack recording could be expanded to a double-album.
In the eighties he wrote a novel that was never published but became the basis for his screenplay of his movie Pump Up the Volume, which he also directed.
Moyle has since directed The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag (1992), Empire Records (1995), New Waterford Girl (1999) - for which he won the Best Direction Canadian Comedy Award in 2001, XChange (2000), and the made-for-TV movies Jailbait (2000) and Man in the Mirror: The Michael Jackson Story (2004).
[3] He is divorced from actress Dianna Miranda and currently married to Chiyoko Tanaka.
He attended McGill University in Montreal and apprenticed at the New London Barn Theatre in New Hampshire.