For example, Michael Mann's film Collateral - there is certain kinds of stories that lend themselves to digital photography. Some things are very raw stories that digital photography kind of lends itself to.

in 2011 he completed Jesus Was a Commie an avant garde-dialectical conversation about the world and the prominent issues of modern society. The film was awarded a prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Modine co-directed the short film with Terence Ziegler the editor of I Think I Thought.

His film roles include Private Joker in Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket the title character in Alan Parker's Birdy high school wrestler Louden Swain in Vision Quest and oversexed Sullivan Groff in Weeds.