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.