Quote by Neil Jordan

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

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The End of the Affair is almost like a play.

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

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

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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…

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

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

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

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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…

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

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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.

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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…

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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…

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