[1] He is a visiting professor of film and new media at New York University Abu Dhabi.
[1] (1982), Streets of Fire (1984),[3] and uncredited contributions to Ralph Bakshi's Cool World (1992).
He won the 2004 Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the Sundance Film Festival for We Don't Live Here Anymore (2004).
[4] Gross attended St Edmund Hall, Oxford and Bard College, from which he graduated in 1974.
[4] In 2008, Gross published his contemporaneous diary of his days on the set of 48 Hrs.