D'entre a suya filmografía, se puet destacar a suya dirección en bellas cintas como The Last Picture Show (1971, con Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Ellen Burstyn, Ben Johnson, Cloris Leachman y Cybill Shepherd), Nickelodeon (1976, con Ryan O'Neal, Burt Reynolds, Tatum O'Neal, Brian Keith, Stella Stevens y John Ritter), They All Laughed (1981, con Audrey Hepburn, Ben Gazzara, Patti Hansen, John Ritter, Dorothy Stratten y Blaine Novak), Texasville (1990, con Jeff Bridges, Timothy Bottoms, Cybill Shepherd, Cloris Leachman y Randy Quaid), u The Cat's Meow (2001, con Kirsten Dunst, Edward Herrmann, Eddie Izzard, Cary Elwes, Joanna Lumley y Jennifer Tilly).