“Some Fish Can Fly seems so personal that Pappas must have lived it. It’s a love story so observant and wise, with such winning actors. The film, furthermore, is ambitious in its structure- with the main character vainly attempting to make a film drawn from his ambivalent romance, while he has yet to come to terms with its ultimately impossible nature. The film represents that Pappas did, in fact experience what he expresses with such tenderness.”

Kevin Thomas - LA Times

“To What Great Lengths True Love Will Travel:
In telling his love story…it is Mr Pappas’ achievement to determine that in the map of love between Cork, Ireland and New York, there is no Hollywood “

Lawrence Van Gelder - NYTimes