Best known as a screenwriter, Bean wrote the screenplays for Internal Affairs, Deep Cover, Venus Rising, The Believer, Basic Instinct 2, and Noise.
[1] Bean's 1983 novel False Match[4] won a PEN Center USA award for "First Fiction".
;[6] and Bean was named a "Breakthrough Director" at the Gotham Independent Film Awards in 2001.
[7] He was so tired of constant noise around him and his home in New York City that he decided to take the law into his own hands.
Bean married Nancy Eliason on January 3, 1968; they divorced February 14, 1970.