Today I found an old friend. –Ed Burns via Purple Violets

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 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.

Self glory makes life meaningless, glorify God fulfills it

Effective leadership is doing important things first. Effective management is knowing what is important.

We are, at least in part, who we remember ourselves to be. Take away our memories, and you take away our selves.

Simplicity is the most difficult of all concepts.

Death is something we shouldn't fear because, while we are, death isn't, and when death is, we aren't.

God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves.

You're a dead man, Arratay," Jerrel said through clenched teeth. Halt smiled. "That's been said before. Yet here I am.

There is nobody so weak of invention that cannot make some little stories to villify his enemy.

Jesus came to save us: let us not reject this marvelous gift!

All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.