Neil Jordan quotes - page 2

I can't do a film if I don't start with the writing. (Neil Jordan)

It's the same thing in a way, although writing a book is a very solitary thing.

Neil Jordan

The most difficult thing is the organization of people and the expression of your intentions. It's very easy to have a picture in your head and to imagine that you've told everybody about what you need.

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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.

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It's the opposite journey from what I've 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.

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I do enjoy working with writers.

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But everyone gets burnt, don't 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 that's what happened.

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The End of the Affair is almost like a play.

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I took two years away from making films to write a novel.

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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.

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Photo: David Shankbone, CC BY 2.0

Occupation: Irish Director
Born: February 25, 1950
Quotes count: 35

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