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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.
Edward Burns -
'Brothers McMullen' would not be picked up for theatrical distribution now.
Edward Burns
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Quite honestly, it's too tough to get your movies made and then also to get out there and sell them.
Edward Burns -
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.
Edward Burns -
The way I see it, when I go out as an actor, it should be on a type of film I'm never going to do as a director.
Edward Burns -
So you got the cool New Yorkers, and then there are the less-than-cool New Yorkers.
Edward Burns -
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.
Edward Burns -
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.
Edward Burns
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Woody Allen would go for seven years without a movie and then make one that makes no money.
Edward Burns -
I feel Irish-Americans are the forgotten minority group. Nobody else is making films about them.
Edward Burns -
Well, for one thing, you know my dad was a cop.
Edward Burns -
It wasn't a bug that he stepped on, it was evolution.
Edward Burns -
Well, honestly, the films I personally like to go see are smaller, more character-driven pieces, so that's why the movies I've made have been smaller, more character-driven movies.
Edward Burns -
It is a juggling act and I have been in it for 12 years now, which is about 11 years longer than I thought I would be, and then the priority there is thinking how can I stay somewhat irrelevant so that you can continue to survive and can continue to work and put yourself in a position to get to do the work you are truly passionate about.
Edward Burns
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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.
Edward Burns -
The stigma of the straight-to-DVD thing is over.
Edward Burns -
When I was 25 years old and had no money - and didn't know how to make movies and had no experience - I was able to get $25,000 together, and that film was 'The Brothers McMullen.'
Edward Burns