John Carney Quotations

We feel an obligation to the people of the Gulf Coast, ... We're representing the fortitude and perseverance and strength of those people who are trying to piece their lives back together.

We knew what this game represented, ... Once the game started, I think the players had our minds on football and the aspects of what we had to do to get the job done. I'm thinking about place-kicking and doing the best job that I can. But when the buzzer sounded and the game was over, I kind of realized what this game had meant to a lot of people.

We knew what this game represented, ... I knew I wasn't just kicking for this team or myself.

Mayor, you asked for our best work. We think we've given it to you.

I believe this win means a great deal to our team, the Gulf Coast and the people of New Orleans. A number of players have visited (Hurricane Katrina) evacuees in San Antonio and they're really excited to follow the Saints this year. They have communicated that to us that they better we do, they better they will feel.

I became interested in film making at around 16, when I discovered a friend of mine had a HI 8 camera which belonged to his father, which we were forbidden to use.

I love actors, and I love good acting. I love what actors do when they're good, and I'm a big acting fan.

He's been described as a free safety and a free spirit. He's not your typical NFL player.

He's been described as a free safety and a free spirit, ... He's not your typical NFL player.

I think ultimately audience members like to see someone controlling the quality of a film. A lot of films you see are made by committees and studios and producers.

I think it will give the people of the Gulf Coast and the people of New Orleans a lift. A number of players in here, including myself, visited some evacuees in San Antonio and they told us outright, 'You guys are playing for us, you represent us. Do well.'

Just because of what the game represented to so many people.

We need to work as a central Ohio community to come up with realistic incentives that will benefit the whole region.

We cannot know, direct or predict with specific certainty today what future treatment decisions we will be asked to make for ourselves or those we love.

To be honest with you, you hope most games are won by two or three touchdowns and you cruise on through. But as a placekicker, you understand this situation might come.

I see you met my friend, Mr. Rodney Harrison.

After a couple of attempts at making shorts, I decided to make a feature film with a friend, Tom Hall, whom I've worked with ever since.

You've got to stick it out and fight for it.

You're more constrained when you're wealthy. Or when you're making a bigger film and people complain about no budgets; but having a small amount of money to make a film means you're at your absolute freest to express yourself as an artist.

Americans like optimism, and 'Once' walks a tightrope: you feel uplifted at the end even if you're crying.

It's been a tough year for us. You can always make excuses, but I don't like to. We've just got a lot of freshmen that had never played the game before, and they did everything I asked them to do. And next year they will know the how much extra work in the batting cage and in the field that we need to do in order to get better.

It's very hard to tell an actor, 'Stop acting.' It's easy to tell a non-actor, because they're embarrassed when they act. They get ashamed when they do something cliche, whereas an actor is happy.

I kept thinking, 'How do you make a modern musical?' Then it became clear that I could do it just like a small indie art-house movie, very naturalistically. I could create a world where it's o.k. to break into song, without an orchestra coming up out of nowhere.

I know there's a lot of people around the country, especially the Gulf south area, that are pretty excited right now,

I like 'Guys and Dolls,' 'Singin' in the Rain' and 'A Star Is Born.' When it works, a musical is an amazing thing. But it rarely works.

I plan on spending my life here. It's everything to me.

I dropped out of school at 17 and joined the Irish band The Frames, getting my first glimpse into the world of professional film making while shooting of a number of rock videos.

The evacuees we talked to communicated to us that the better we do, the better they will feel,

The environment is good for business and the business is the environment. If we muck it up the environment, we're not going to have any tourists.