[7] Gyllenhaal directed several episodes of the CBS series Numb3rs, The Mentalist, Hawthorne, Army Wives, Rectify, and Blue Bloods.

His first collection of poetry, Claptrap: Notes from Hollywood,[9] was published in June 2006 by Cantara Christopher's New York–based literary small press, Cantarabooks.

[10] In 2013, Gyllenhaal directed a backdoor pilot originally titled Sworn to Silence that aired as the Lifetime TV movie An Amish Murder.

It stars Neve Campbell as a local police detective who must solve a murder case that involves the Amish Community she was shunned from years ago.

[12] In 2019, Gyllenhaal was on the "Social Impact Advisory Board" of the San Diego International Film Festival with Susan Sarandon and Cecelia Peck.