Neil Jordan quotes

Neil Jordan is an acclaimed Irish film director, screenwriter, and novelist celebrated for his distinctive storytelling style. His most notable films include "The Crying Game," "Interview with the Vampire," and "Michael Collins." He has received numerous awards and continues to influence modern cinema. Here are 35 of his quotes:

Well, Company of Wolves was about that literally, about fairy tales. (Neil Jordan)
For me, the filmmaking has to be about the dramaturgy. View quote
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I've also worked hard portraying an Ireland which is fast disappearing. Ireland was a very depressed and difficult place in the 1980s, and I've tried to include that in the script. I worked really hard to find the heart of the book. View quote
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I've 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. View quote
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Is it fair to have given us the memory of what was and the desire of what could be when we must suffer what is? View quote
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I hoped that grief was similar to the other emotions. That it would end, the way happiness did. Or laughter. View quote
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I'm less comfortable making American movies because I don't know them so well. View quote
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When you've written a movie, you then get together with a whole lot of people and make it. In many ways, I think it is far nicer to be with people rather than being completely solitary. View quote
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It's hard to know whether certain characters come to life or not, they either come to have their own life or they don't. I've written many things in which the characters just remain inert. View quote
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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. View quote
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The Company of Wolves is about how society teaches young women to look at themselves, and what to be afraid of. It's about a girl learning that the world of sensuality and the unknown is not to be feared, that it's worth getting your teeth into. (Neil Jordan)
Films have gotten leaner and leaner, cutting out all variations from the story line. View quote
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There's no point in making a film out of a great book. The book's already great. What's the point? View quote
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Why should a horror film be just a horror film? To me, The Company of Wolves is a fairy tale; it's got all those elements plus a lot more. And we know that fairy tales aren't innocent any more. View quote
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And I think I often choose to do something because it's quite different from what I've done before. View quote
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For me now, it's about what you would write and what you wouldn't write, and that's 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. View quote
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It is extremely difficult to get movies that cost more than $40 million to be made these days. View quote
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It's 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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Never make a promise - you may have to keep it. View quote
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The Company of Wolves doesn't belong in any category, so it's difficult to prepare an audience for it. It's not a horror film, it's not a fantasy film, it's not a children's film - so what is it? (Neil Jordan)
Well, if you're talking about the current climate, there's a lack of content in American film because I think people are deeply confused about their emotions, and they don't regret certain aspects of their own foreign policy. View quote
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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 Patrick's vision was so complete there. View quote
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I had made a decision, although I hardly knew it yet. It's often that way with decisions, they're made in some hidden part of us and the awareness secretes itself slowly into that conscious part of us that imagines it decides. View quote
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Well, I suppose I'm interested in ways of storytelling and in stories that are about storytelling. View quote
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Neil Jordan

Neil Jordan - Image
Photo: David Shankbone, CC BY 2.0
Occupation: Irish Director
Born: February 25, 1950
Quotes count: 35

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