Neil Jordan Quotes - Page 2

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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 put yourself into situations where it can get outside of your control. And that's what happened.

  Neil Jordan

  Directors, Certain, Situation

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

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• I do enjoy working with writers.

  Neil Jordan

  Enjoy

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

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• 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

  Mean, Years, Issues

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

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• Hollywood always chooses young and beautiful men and throws them into enormous, highly expensive toy-like movies, and I think sometimes it's hard for the maturity of the craft to emerge in that kind of glare.

  Neil Jordan

  Beautiful, Maturity, Men

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• It is extremely difficult to get movies that cost more than $40 million to be made these days.

  Neil Jordan

  Cost, Made, These Days

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• And I think I often choose to do something because it's quite different from what I've done before.

  Neil Jordan

  Thinking, Different, Done

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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 to imagine that you've told everybody about what you need.

  Neil Jordan

  Expression, Organization, People

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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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• 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

  Thinking, People, Together

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• 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

  Regret, Confused, Thinking

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

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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 not a fantasy film, it's not a children's film - so what is it?

  Neil Jordan

  Children, Fantasy, Horror

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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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• 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 familiar to me into it.

  Neil Jordan

  Dream, Directors, Too Much

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

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• For example, the character of Claire in In Dreams wasn't imagined enough by me. Annette Bening is a great actress, and she gave a great performance, but because I hadn't fully written it essentially the character wasn't finished.

  Neil Jordan

  Dream, Character, Example

  "Horns and Halos". Interview with Michael Koresky, reverseshot.org. November 10, 2005.

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• It's the opposite journey from what I've usually done with films. I find it very easy to go from, say, a lit, pleasurable environment, like what you see outside there, to a very dark place. But the opposite journey, which is what this movie takes, is much more complicated.

  Neil Jordan

  Dark, Journey, Opposites

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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 back, and end.

  Neil Jordan

  Different, Stories, Movement

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

  Neil Jordan

  Fairy Tale, Tales, Wells

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

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• It's the same thing in a way, although writing a book is a very solitary thing.

  Neil Jordan

  Book, Writing, Way

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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 the world of sensuality and the unknown is not to be feared, that it's worth getting your teeth into.

  Neil Jordan

  Girl, Sensual, Teeth

  "In the Company of Neil Jordan: Teaching Little Girls Not to be Afraid of Wolves". Interview with Michael Dare, first published in LA Weekly, April 19, 1985.

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