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

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

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.

A true friend will never do match-making if they dont like the person that makes their friend Happy

The path to joy leads through despair.

Settle for nothing less than the object of your desire.

On that very first day, when I queued up, in the thousands, I never expected to get very far

It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.

I know I'm not very popular on Long Island. I don't know who's less popular, me or Joey Buttafuoco.

Words are intermediary between thought and things. We express ourselves really not through words, which are only signs, but through what they signify - through things.

Taxation being a burthen, must needs weigh lightest on each individual, when it bears upon all alike.

If we learn not humility, we learn nothing.

All medicine comes down to this: Find out what's bugging you; get rid of it. Find out what you need; get it. The body does the rest.