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For me, the filmmaking has to be about the dramaturgy.
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, and I've tried to include that in the script. I worked really hard to find the heart of the book.
Neil Jordan
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 it would turn out like.
Neil Jordan
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?
Neil Jordan
I hoped that grief was similar to the other emotions. That it would end, the way happiness did. Or laughter.
Neil Jordan
I'm less comfortable making American movies because I don't know them so well.
Neil Jordan
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 people rather than being completely solitary.
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 don't. I've written many things in which the characters just remain inert.
Neil Jordan
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 because that was the story since I was 19 years old or 20.
Neil Jordan
Films have gotten leaner and leaner, cutting out all variations from the story line.
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
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 know that fairy tales aren't innocent any more.
Neil Jordan
And I think I often choose to do something because it's quite different from what I've done before.
Neil Jordan
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. It can be quite nice being brought a concept by a studio for me to work on.
Neil Jordan
It is extremely difficult to get movies that cost more than $40 million to be made these days.
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 as long as it is the right thing to do.
Neil Jordan
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 back, and end.
Neil Jordan
Never make a promise - you may have to keep it.
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 confused about their emotions, and they don't regret certain aspects of their own foreign policy.
Neil Jordan
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. And Patrick's vision was so complete there.
Neil Jordan
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 and the awareness secretes itself slowly into that conscious part of us that imagines it decides.
Neil Jordan
Well, I suppose I'm interested in ways of storytelling and in stories that are about storytelling.
Neil Jordan
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