I mean the cool thing about the movies is that you get to try on these different personalities and different styles.

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

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

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

Quite honestly, it's too tough to get your movies made and then also to get out there and sell 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.