David grew up in Beaverton, Oregon. When he was 10 years old he saw The Battleship Potempkin and the silent The Phantom of the Opera with Lon Chaney and was hooked. He got his parents 8mm film camera and all the neighbor kids and made a Halloween film. The story is: Frankenstein and the Wolfman get in a fight. Dracula wakes up out of her coffin (female Latina Dracula,) she stops the fight, puts on a record and everyone dances. It is the same message he is putting in his films to this day. In high school he worked on every play doing every job from building sets, sound design, lighting, acting and singing, and even convinced his teacher to allow him to direct the final play of the year. He then worked as a projectionist to support his three month college career and then moved to LA in 1980. He started working right away and never stopped. David is largely self taught, but also attended the Sherwood Oaks Experimental College taking dozens of seminars from prominent film professionals. His first advisor was Robert Wise, producer and director of The Sound of Music and West Side Story and the editor of Citizen Kane, he learned producing from the production manager of Close Encounters, cinematrography from a designer of the Cinerama camera, and studied directing for 19 years with renowned teacher and director Milton Katselas at the Beverly Hills Playhouse. David has worked on over 140 features and dozens of shorts and plays and has won awards in every major field of filmmaking. He has worked on films such as Pulp Fiction, Speed, Total Recall and Predator 2 with filmmakers such as Quentin Tarentino, William Friedken, Paul Verhoeven, Brian Depalma and Tobe Hooper, and actors like Morgan Freeman, Lawrence Fishbourne, Goldie Hawn, Mira Sorvino and Ellen Barkin.