Turned down the offer to adapt The Da Vinci Code. Has written two screenplays where Harrison Ford was offered a role: Robert Wakefield in Traffic (2000) (which went to Michael Douglas) and Bob Barnes in Syriana (2005) (which George Clooney won the Oscar). He has a son Gardner (b. 1999) and a daughter Betsy (b. 2001) from his relationship with actress Michael McCraine. His wife Minnie is a great-granddaughter of Henry Morgan Tilford, a founder of the Standard Oil Company.
