Quotes from Edward Burns

I suffer from Irish-Catholic guilt. Guilt is a good reality check. It keeps that 'do what makes you happy' thing in check.

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.

That's my advice for indie filmmakers: Marry a supermodel.

Actors are con men and con men are actors.

Today I found an old friend. –Ed Burns via Purple Violets

The con movie is a little bit different where maybe we tell you what we're going to do but it never goes down the way you expect because there's so much double-crossing and cheats and lies going on along the whole way.

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.

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

People that went to art house theatre have more options, I used to go, but now think any movie can be delivered in a red envelope three months after it's released so why not watch it on my flat screen in the comfort of home.

Well, for one thing, you know my dad was a cop.

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.

You make a movie for 9k for the freedom it allows you.

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.

So you got the cool New Yorkers, and then there are the less-than-cool New Yorkers.

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.

It's an enormous wall that's built between you and your dreams. And if every day, you just chip away... It may take ten years, but eventually you just might see some light.

I suffer from Irish-Catholic guilt. Guilt is a good reality check. It keeps that 'do what makes you happy' thing in check.

A bird in the hand is worth plucking, frying, and sticking between two bits of bread.

Today I found an old friend. –Ed Burns via Purple Violets

Today I found an old friend.

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

It's so hard to raise money for independent films and the fact of the matter is that the bigger my star or whatever is, as a result of doing bigger pictures, the easier it is for me to get money for my own projects.

Woody Allen would go for seven years without a movie and then make one that makes no money.