- Nickname
- EJ
- Height5′ 11″ (1.80 m)
- Elyon John Gonzales is known for Entanglements of a Dangerous Mind (2010), Z Eagle Has Landed (2015) and My Fair Clair (2013).
- His father was a painter, heavily influenced by abstract paintings and symmetrical framing. His mother owned her own beauty salon as a licensed cosmetologist.
- He grew up in Highland Park, California where he and his best friend shot stories with the family camcorder.
- He wrote and sold his first short script/story at the age of 17 using an old PC tower on Microsoft word software.
- His main influences are Stanley Kubrick, Paul Thomas Anderson, Robert Altman, Peter Greenaway, Sidney Lumet, and Peter Bogdanovich, both for their writing and directorial work.
- His all-time favorite film is "Network" (1976) which was the first "grown-up" movie his dad ever showed him when he was 7 years old.
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