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.

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.

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

Memories are nice, but dreams are better.

Successful design is not the achievement of perfection but the minimization and accommodation of imperfection.

These acts of mass murder were intended to frighten our nation into chaos and retreat.But they have failed; our country is strong.

Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts.

Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.

... people who'd led dull and blameless lives did not give thanks for second chances.

God does not treat us as our sins deserve, man treats us as our sins deserve.

I'm not perfect, but I'd like to be perfect. I'm working on it.

The body cannot be the soul.

An angel's face is tricky to wear constantly.