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

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

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

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.

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

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.

The stigma of the straight-to-DVD thing is over.