He decided to go back to school to seek a second act career, and earned a master's degree in spiritual psychology.
In these capacities, he was responsible for films including Diner, The Year of Living Dangerously, Pink Floyd The Wall, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure and The Power of One.
A co-founder of Village Roadshow Pictures in 1988, he pioneered U.S./Australian co-productions in the late 1980s and early 1990s executive producing a handful of films including The Delinquents[8] and Prisoners of the Sun.
[9] Branching into multimedia development in 1994, he licensed the interactive rights to Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and produced the video game Big Brother based on the book.
[11] From 1995 to 2003, with writer and artist Robit Hairman, he co-founded Talkie, Inc.,[12] a technology company that created online conversational animated characters for marketing, brand building, lead generation, customer service and training.