Has two daughters with Anya Epstein. Sylvie was born in 2001 and Eve was born in 2005.

Wrote the screenplay for 2005's "Capote"; Directed by childhood friend Bennett Miller and starring childhood friend Phillip Seymour Hoffman.

Dan's brother-in-law is the general manager of the Boston Red Sox, Theo Epstein.

Graduated Mamaroneck (NY) High School. Classmate of Bennett Miller. [1985]

Invited to join AMPAS in 2006.

Graduate of Columbia University, New York [1989]

He met his wife Anya on the set of "Homicide: Life on the Street" (1993) in late 1999 when she was a writer on the show.