Newlyweds shooting budget: 5k for actors, 2k insurance, 2k food and drink. 9k in the can. We only shot 12 days. That's how to make an independent film.

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.

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

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

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

Newlyweds shooting budget: 5k for actors, 2k insurance, 2k food and drink. 9k in the can. We only shot 12 days. That's how to make an independent film.

Brothers McMullen' would not be picked up for theatrical distribution now.