Maybe I should have taken a few chances. That's not to say I want to go make Star Wars, but I need to shift my career into the studio world. That's where my head was at when I thought of the original plot.

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'm always aware of who my core audiences are and I serve that niche.

I'd been offered TV series over the years and never had any interest in doing television. I'm not a TV guy.

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.

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

Actors are con men and con men are actors.