Neil Jordan Quotes

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• 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

  Memories, Suffering, Desire

  Neil Jordan (1997). “Collected fiction of Neil Jordan”, Vintage Books USA

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

  Neil Jordan

  Filmmaking

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

  Neil Jordan

  Laughter, Grief, Way

  Neil Jordan (2011). “Mistaken”, p.54, Hachette UK

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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.

  Neil Jordan

  People, Dull, Made

  "Q&A: Neil Jordan, Master of the Vampire Movie". Interview with Paul Schrodt, www.esquire.com. June 27, 2013.

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

  Neil Jordan

  Book, Film, Great Book

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

  Neil Jordan

  Promise, May

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

  Neil Jordan

  American Movie, Wells, Knows

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• If you're brought up Catholic, you're convinced of magic at a very early age. You're convinced the world isn't entirely real, which is a kind of conviction that never leaves you, for some strange reason.

  Neil Jordan

  Real, Catholic, Magic

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• The truth is that seals look more like dogs. And I'm surrounded by seals because I live by the sea. They're odd bloody creatures. Not fish, they don't have gills, they should have legs, but they don't. They're the weirdest things, you know?

  Neil Jordan

  Dog, Odd, Truth Is

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• The great thing about fairy tales and myths is that they go beyond character. They're not about character. They're about more basic things. They're about basic fears or longings or desires or fantasies, and stuff like that.

  Neil Jordan

  Character, Desire, Fairy Tale

  Source: film.avclub.com

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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 I've tried to include that in the script. I worked really hard to find the heart of the book.

  Neil Jordan

  Book, Heart, Scripts

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• Ireland is becoming like everywhere else, but that's the one I grew up in: the one that's hugely illogical. Rather wonderful, in a way. I never found this oppression of religion and that, but I did enjoy growing up in a culture that didn't need to be rational all of the time.

  Neil Jordan

  Growing Up, Culture, Wonderful

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• 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

  Growing Up, Kids, Boys

  Interview with Michael Koresky, reverseshot.org. November 10, 2005.

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

  Neil Jordan

  Writing, Film, Ifs

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• 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

  Character, Certain, Knows

  "Horns and Halos: An Interview with Neil Jordan". Interview with Michael Koresky, reverseshot.org. November 10, 2005.

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• I don't know why anybody would come to Ireland chasing a dream or even employment - that's an extraordinary thing for a place where traditionally one was unemployed. For 10 years, people were coming from all over the world looking for employment here, kind of an extraordinary phenomenon. That's stopped now.

  Neil Jordan

  Dream, People, World

  Source: film.avclub.com

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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 as it is the right thing to do.

  Neil Jordan

  Nice, Long, Hollywood

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• 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

  Scripts, Three, Littles

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• 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

  Nice, Writing, Select

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• You've got to play what people think you are, rather than what you are. You have to have a sense of what you are as you're playing what people think you are.

  Neil Jordan

  Thinking, People

  Source: film.avclub.com

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

  Neil Jordan

  Cutting, Stories, Variation

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• I just got back from New York, and I realized in New York, it's very difficult to hear a New York accent. It's almost impossible, actually - everybody seems to speak like they're from the Valley or something. When I grew up, you could tell what street in Dublin someone's from by the way they talked.

  Neil Jordan

  Impossible, Speak, Difficult

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• 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.

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  Decision, Way, Imagine

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

  Neil Jordan

  Stories, Way, Storytelling

  Interview with Michael Koresky, reverseshot.org. November 10, 2005.

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

  Neil Jordan

  Writing, Years, Two

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