Friday, August 17, 2012 at 2:12PM
Drew Wolfe

Ed Burns

Actors are con men and con men are actors. 

And at no point did making 'Brothers McMullen' feel like work or hardship. It was really just a matter of 11 days of fun over the course of 8 months. 

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

But at a certain point, you have to take your influence and find your own voice if you want to become a relevant artist. 

But the longer I'm in the business, you see a lot of times these screenplays have been rewritten 5 times and you're not really offending an author. 

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. 

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. 

I spent four months in Prague in these blue rooms reacting to nothing and you basically place your faith in the hands of the director and the special effects co-coordinator and you keep your fingers crossed and hope that the creatures look really scary. 

I suffer from Irish-Catholic guilt.

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

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

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

I'm betting that in two years I'll be talking to you about a film that I shot on an iPhone. It's absolutely coming, I have no doubt in my mind.

 

 

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