>>213367538 (OP)He did for about 5 years in the 90s and he squandered it all with his mid-00s mainstream slop that's basically Jersey Girl, Clerks II, Zach and Miri and Cop Out.
He was another good Gen X indie director who simply couldn't take that talent and blow up the scale to do mainstream projects.
There are a lot of directors like that, you can give them 1,000,000 dollars and they'll make an intimate piece that depicts perfectly a person, place and time, you give them 50,000,000 they'll give you a polarizing piece of slop that seems like it's stuck between a snarky script and a giant concept. David Lynch is probably the GOAT of them.