Neil Jordan Quotes

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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…
• 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…
• 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.…
• 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…
• And I think I often choose to do something because it's quite different from what I've done before.
• I hoped that grief was similar to the other emotions. That it would end, the way happiness did. Or laughter.
• 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?
• 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…
• 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…
• I can't do a film if I don't start with the writing.
• For me, the filmmaking has to be about the dramaturgy.
• I do enjoy working with writers.
• I took two years away from making films to write a novel.
• 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…
• 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…
• Never make a promise - you may have to keep it.
• There's no point in making a film out of a great book. The book's already great. What's the point?
• 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.…
• Films have gotten leaner and leaner, cutting out all variations from the story line.
• I'm less comfortable making American movies because I don't know them so well.

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