- Wrote his screenplay for Heathers (1988) while working in a video store. At the time, he was literally eating popcorn every night for dinner.
- Owns the house Orson Welles died in.
- Most of the female characters in his film Heathers (1988) were somewhat based upon his sister when she was in high school.
- Tim Burton wanted him to contribute to the screenplay for "Batman Forever" after seeing his "Heathers" movie.
- When not writing his own scripts, he works as a "script doctor," rewriting the work of others.
- Is the elder brother of Mark Waters.
- Attended James Whitcomb Riley High School in South Bend, Indiana.
- Brother-in-law of Dina Spybey-Waters.
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