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Neil Jordan Quotes
And I think I often choose to do something because its quite different from what Ive done before. - Neil Jordan Quotes
But everyone gets burnt, dont they? Certain things are outside of your control. I suppose the only thing you can learn as a director is to not put yourself into situations where it can get outside of your control. And thats what happened. - Neil Jordan Quotes
Company of Wolves was a story in a story in a story, which is actually a dream a girl dreams within which her grandmother tells a story. - Neil Jordan Quotes
Films have gotten leaner and leaner, cutting out all variations from the story line. - Neil Jordan Quotes
For example, the character of Claire in In Dreams wasnt imagined enough by me. Annette Bening is a great actress, and she gave a great performance, but because I hadnt fully written it essentially the character wasnt finished. - Neil Jordan Quotes
For me now, its about what you would write and what you wouldnt write, and thats how I select what I am going to do. It can be quite nice being brought a concept by a studio for me to work on. - Neil Jordan Quotes
For me, the filmmaking has to be about the dramaturgy. - Neil Jordan Quotes
I cant do a film if I dont start with the writing. - Neil Jordan Quotes
I do enjoy working with writers. - Neil Jordan Quotes
I mean I grew up in Ireland, so one would have to be consciously blinkered not to have reflected on the issue of political violence because that was the story since I was 19 years old or 20. - Neil Jordan Quotes
I took two years away from making films to write a novel. - Neil Jordan Quotes
I was asked once or twice, years ago, by producers, to make my book The Past into a movie. I just couldnt see it being turned into a film. - Neil Jordan Quotes
I write the script first, to see if its even vaguely interesting, and then if the script becomes compulsive, then I can do the film. - Neil Jordan Quotes
Im less comfortable making American movies because I dont know them so well. - Neil Jordan Quotes
Ive also worked hard portraying an Ireland which is fast disappearing. Ireland was a very depressed and difficult place in the 1980s, and Ive tried to include that in the script. I worked really hard to find the heart of the book. - Neil Jordan Quotes
Ive got perhaps more of a visual sense than most writers, so I enjoy getting the coherence from the writer to create these large pictures. - Neil Jordan Quotes
Ive had three novels published, and I was working a little bit in theater in Ireland. I wrote one film script just to see what it would turn out like. - Neil Jordan Quotes
In Dreams... well, I was slightly overcompensating with that. I was a bit like a director for hire, so maybe I was putting too much imagery that was familiar to me into it. - Neil Jordan Quotes
Initially with The Butcher Boy, there was this kid growing up in this strange, weird environment that I remember from when I was a kid. And Patricks vision was so complete there. - Neil Jordan Quotes
It is extremely difficult to get movies that cost more than $40 million to be made these days. - Neil Jordan Quotes
Its hard to know whether certain characters come to life or not, they either come to have their own life or they dont. Ive written many things in which the characters just remain inert. - Neil Jordan Quotes
Its nice to work with Hollywood because there is never any question of resources put at your disposal to make a film as long as it is the right thing to do. - Neil Jordan Quotes
Its the opposite journey from what Ive usually done with films. I find it very easy to go from, say, a lit, pleasurable environment, like what you see outside there, to a very dark place. But the opposite journey, which is what this movie takes, is much more complicated. - Neil Jordan Quotes
Its the same thing in a way, although writing a book is a very solitary thing. - Neil Jordan Quotes
My conception of it was that in a normal film you have a story with different movements that program, develop, go a little bit off the trunk, come back, and end. - Neil Jordan Quotes
Never make a promise - you may have to keep it. - Neil Jordan Quotes
No, I just thought of a story and wrote down what I saw. It was about two kids in Ireland who went around killing people. It was called Travelers, and it was made as an independent film. - Neil Jordan Quotes
The Company of Wolves doesnt belong in any category, so its difficult to prepare an audience for it. Its not a horror film, its not a fantasy film, its not a childrens film - so what is it? - Neil Jordan Quotes
The Company of Wolves is about how society teaches young women to look at themselves, and what to be afraid of. Its about a girl learning that the world of sensuality and the unknown is not to be feared, that its worth getting your teeth into. - Neil Jordan Quotes
The End of the Affair is almost like a play. - Neil Jordan Quotes
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