Actors are con men and con men are actors.

There has been a great proliferation of lawyers in the pat 20 years, just as there has been a proliferation of computers. But unlike computers, lawyers do not get twice as intelligent and half as expensive every two years.

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

Woody Allen would go for seven years without a movie and then make one that makes no money.

It's so hard to raise money for independent films and the fact of the matter is that the bigger my star or whatever is, as a result of doing bigger pictures, the easier it is for me to get money for my own projects.

I was a kid who went to film school and fell into acting.

Well, for one thing, you know my dad was a cop.