Neil Jordan

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

— Neil Jordan

Never make a promise - you may have to keep it.

— Neil Jordan

I do enjoy working with writers.

— Neil Jordan

“I am afraid of him now. The one I love most in the world.”

— Neil Jordan

“Rome is particularly lethal this summer.”

— Neil Jordan

For me, the filmmaking has to be about the dramaturgy.

— Neil Jordan

The End of the Affair is almost like a play.

— Neil Jordan

I can't do a film if I don't start with the writing.

— Neil Jordan

Is it fair to have given us the memory of what was and the desire of what could be when we must…

— Neil Jordan

“Don't you understand brother? I want to find a love...that will free me from this love...”

— Neil Jordan

Well, Company of Wolves was about that literally, about fairy tales.

— Neil Jordan

“Nina felt an inordinate pleasure, a pleasure that seemed to creep up on her the way the mud oozed through her barefoot…

— Neil Jordan

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

— Neil Jordan

I'm less comfortable making American movies because I don't know them so well.

— Neil Jordan

Films have gotten leaner and leaner, cutting out all variations from the story line.

— Neil Jordan

Well, I suppose I'm interested in ways of storytelling and in stories that are about storytelling.

— Neil Jordan

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

No, I just thought of a story and wrote down what I saw. It was about two kids in Ireland who went…

— Neil Jordan

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

I've also worked hard portraying an Ireland which is fast disappearing. Ireland was a very depressed and difficult place in the 1980s,…

— 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…

— Neil Jordan

It's hard to know whether certain characters come to life or not, they either come to have their own life or they…

— Neil Jordan

“I walked with them, as crowds have that effect on me, I want to do what they do, to journey towards some…

— Neil Jordan

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

I don't know why anybody would come to Ireland chasing a dream or even employment - that's an extraordinary thing for a…

— Neil Jordan

I don't think we have enough imaginary creatures in cinema. It seems like we're stuck with zombies, vampires, and werewolves. We should…

— Neil Jordan

Ireland is becoming like everywhere else, but that's the one I grew up in: the one that's hugely illogical. Rather wonderful, in…

— Neil Jordan

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

I just got back from New York, and I realized in New York, it's very difficult to hear a New York accent.…

— Neil Jordan

The whole Ireland was taken over by greed and materialism. It was extraordinary. The price of every house had skyrocketed. If you…

— Neil Jordan

I hoped that grief was similar to the other emotions. That it would end, the way happiness did. Or laughter.

— Neil Jordan

“You are intelligent, you are diplomatic, you are beautiful, and you are and always will be...[he kisses her]...MINE...”

— Neil Jordan

There's no point in making a film out of a great book. The book's already great. What's the point?

— Neil Jordan

And I think I often choose to do something because it's quite different from what I've done before.

— Neil Jordan

It is extremely difficult to get movies that cost more than $40 million to be made these days.

— Neil Jordan

The great thing about fairy tales and myths is that they go beyond character. They're not about character. They're about more basic…

— Neil Jordan

“A prince may be seen happy today and ruined tomorrow without having shown any chance in his character. For the prince who…

— Neil Jordan

My conception of it was that in a normal film you have a story with different movements that program, develop, go a…

— Neil Jordan

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

The Company of Wolves is about how society teaches young women to look at themselves, and what to be afraid of. It's…

— Neil Jordan