I really wanted Michael Jackson to be in the first Men in Black, but he didn't want to be considered as an alien!

He started work as director of photography on the Oscar-nominated In Our Water (1982). Wild Wild West was an expensive disappointment. He also worked with Danny DeVito on Throw Momma from the Train (1987) and Rob Reiner on When Harry Met Sally (1989) and Misery (1990).

Barry Sonnenfeld (born April 1 1953) is an American filmmaker and television director.