Met Robert Rodriguez in a drug study, where Rodriguez was making money to finance El Mariachi. Robert Rodriguez offered Marquardt a role in the film.
Although he appeared in the Spanish-language film El Mariachi (1992), he did not
speak Spanish, and read his dialog from cue cards. For lengthy dialog,
he wore dark glasses to make him appear as if he could speak the
language.
Associate producer for computer game company ION Storm (July 1997)