Films have gotten leaner and leaner, cutting out all variations from the story line. — Neil Jordan Copy Share Image
There's no point in making a film out of a great book. The book's already great. What's the point? — Neil Jordan Copy Share Image
It is extremely difficult to get movies that cost more than $40 million to be made these days. — Neil Jordan Copy Share Image
No, I just thought of a story and wrote down what I saw. It was about two kids in Ireland who went… — Neil Jordan Copy Share Image
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… — Neil Jordan Copy Share Image
It's nice to work with Hollywood because there is never any question of resources put at your disposal to make a film… — Neil Jordan Copy Share Image
My conception of it was that in a normal film you have a story with different movements that program, develop, go a… — Neil Jordan Copy Share Image
Why should a horror film be just a horror film? To me, The Company of Wolves is a fairy tale; it's got… — Neil Jordan Copy Share Image
I've had three novels published, and I was working a little bit in theater in Ireland. I wrote one film script just… — Neil Jordan Copy Share Image
When you've written a movie, you then get together with a whole lot of people and make it. In many ways, I… — Neil Jordan Copy Share Image
If movies have to satisfy every possible quadrant before they're even made, they're dull. You only get great things when people overreach… — Neil Jordan Copy Share Image
But everyone gets burnt, don't they? Certain things are outside of your control. I suppose the only thing you can learn as… — Neil Jordan Copy Share Image
Well, if you're talking about the current climate, there's a lack of content in American film because I think people are deeply… — Neil Jordan Copy Share Image
It's the opposite journey from what I've usually done with films. I find it very easy to go from, say, a lit,… — Neil Jordan Copy Share Image
Well, I suppose I'm interested in ways of storytelling and in stories that are about storytelling. — Neil Jordan Copy Share
Films have gotten leaner and leaner, cutting out all variations from the story line. — Neil Jordan Copy Share
In Dreams... well, I was slightly overcompensating with that. I was a bit like a director for hire, so maybe I was putting too… — Neil Jordan Copy Share
The whole Ireland was taken over by greed and materialism. It was extraordinary. The price of every house had skyrocketed. If you were a… — Neil Jordan Copy Share
My conception of it was that in a normal film you have a story with different movements that program, develop, go a little bit… — Neil Jordan Copy Share
If movies have to satisfy every possible quadrant before they're even made, they're dull. You only get great things when people overreach themselves. — Neil Jordan Copy Share
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… — Neil Jordan Copy Share
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… — Neil Jordan Copy Share
The great thing about fairy tales and myths is that they go beyond character. They're not about character. They're about more basic things. They're… — Neil Jordan Copy Share
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… — Neil Jordan Copy Share
I hoped that grief was similar to the other emotions. That it would end, the way happiness did. Or laughter. — Neil Jordan Copy Share
