- His cousin is actor Lee Arenberg.
- His cousins owned movie theaters in Baltimore and Washington DC.
- His father Sid invented the Pizza-Savor screen, which keeps a pizza crispy on delivery and the magnifying lens card card that gives diners a way to see their check without reading glasses.
- His mother Barbara worked in the publicity department of Walt Disney in New York and drove a yellow 1966 mustang.
- His production company name is Surreel.
- DP'd his first 35mm feature at 27 'Prisoners of Iffen' directed by Christer Hokanson and starring Howard Klausner.
- In a preemptive strike, childhood friend Ken Kaufman made David sit in the back of the temple at his Bar Mitzvah so that Kaufman wouldn't laugh while singing his haftorah. Kaufman later set a tablecloth on fire at David's Bar Mitzvah.
- As a teenager obsessed with Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) and inspired by a chrome garbage can, he built a life size R2D2 complete with remote control and tape recorded sounds which still resides in his parents' basement in Merrick, New York.
- Told Terry Jones during a panel that he was ostracized as a youth for the ad infinitum recitation of Monty Python sketches to which Jones responded "You're not getting your money back if that's what you think!".
- He made it out of the bathroom and into the basement when he built his first "real" darkroom with his father at fourteen.
- At fourteen he made his first film a Monty Python Terry Gilliam inspired animation featuring magazine cut outs that he shot on 8mm. He hopes to someday process the film.
- Adopted his father's Yashica 35mm range finder that he used to shoot his older sister Jodi's sweet sixteen.
- He received his first camera when he was eight an Imperial Instant Load 900.
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