Born in Los Angeles County, California, he graduated from Beverly Hills High School.
Marston worked in Paris as an intern for Life, then for ABC News during the Gulf War.
[1] He returned to the United States and earned a master's degree in Political Science from University of Chicago in 1994 before earning a Master of Fine Arts in film at New York University.
Marston directed a segment of the collective film New York, I Love You.
In 2016, Marston made his English-language debut on Complete Unknown starring Rachel Weisz and Michael Shannon, which had its world premiere at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival.