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32 quotes by Neil Jordan

Neil Jordan Jordan at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival Born Neil Patrick Jordan (1950-02-25) 25 February 1950 (age 64) Sligo, Ireland Occupation Film director, screenwriter, novelist Years active 1979–present Spouse(s) Vivienne Shields Brenda Rawn (2004–present) Children 5 Website neiljordan.com Neil Patrick Jordan (born 25 February 1950) is an Irish film director, screenwriter and novelist. He won an Academy Award (Best Original...
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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 learning that... →

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

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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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Why should a horror film be just a horror film? To me, The Company of Wolves is a fairy tale; it's got all those elements plus a lot more. And we... →

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

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

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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... →

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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... →

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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 off the trunk, come... →

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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... →

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When you've written a movie, you then get together with a whole lot of people and make it. In many ways, I think it is far nicer to be with... →

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

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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... →

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