I feel Irish-Americans are the forgotten minority group. Nobody else is making films about them.

That's my advice for indie filmmakers: Marry a supermodel.

It's an enormous wall that's built between you and your dreams. And if every day, you just chip away... It may take ten years, but eventually you just might see some light.

I suffer from Irish-Catholic guilt. Guilt is a good reality check. It keeps that ‘do what makes you happy’ thing in check.

I am a big fan of the old Howard Hawks films from the 30s and 40s, I was a big Hepburn and Tracey fan for a while and Woody Allen films that are a very different kind of romantic comedy.

But at a certain point, you have to take your influence and find your own voice if you want to become a relevant artist.

I'm always aware of who my core audiences are and I serve that niche.

I try not to be too plot-heavy and to balance the dramatic with the comedic.

Brothers McMullen' would not be picked up for theatrical distribution now.

Trust your actors. That's why I work with the same actors time and time again. I encourage them to change the dialogue to achieve one thing: keep the characters honest.

You make a movie for 9k for the freedom it allows you.

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is very important.

In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.

I raised my hands, trying to shush her. "Don't shush me," she said, eyes blazing. "I hate being shushed.

I'm scared of the interviews...I'm scared of having to get up onstage again. I'm scared of the critique. I'm scared right now of doing this again. But that's why I have to do it, I think.

The world is tired of seeing the perpetuation of violence and terrorism, but the effort to create a real peace needs to go hand in hand with the struggle to restore justice.

Everything in journalism is about the detail that makes the whole, the attempts to reproduce speech patterns while not actually quoting the whole thing the person said.

I've never seen anyone go on the DL with pulled fat.

The task of science, therefore, is not to attack the objects of faith, but to establish the limits beyond which knowledge cannot go and found a unified self-consciousness within these limits.

Thoughts lead to feelings. Feelings lead to actions. Action leads to results.

People who are tremendously concerned about their identification, their individuality, their self-expression, or their sense of humor, always seem to be missing the very things they pursue.