Quotes by Neil Jordan

About Neil Jordan:

Neil Patrick Jordan is an Irish film director, screenwriter and novelist. He won an Academy Award (Best Original Screenplay) for The Crying Game. He also won the Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlin International Film Festival for The Butcher Boy.
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I am afraid of him now. The one I love most in the world.

Neil Jordan

Don't you understand brother? I want to find a love...that will free me from this love...

Neil Jordan

A prince may be seen happy today and ruined tomorrow without having shown any chance in his character. For the prince who relies entirely on fortune is lost when it changes...

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

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

Neil Jordan

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

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

Neil Jordan

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

Neil Jordan

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

Neil Jordan

I do enjoy working with writers.

Neil Jordan

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

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

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...

Neil Jordan

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

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

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, and it was made as an independent film.

Neil Jordan

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

The End of the Affair is almost like a play.

Neil Jordan

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

Author Bio

  • NameNeil Jordan
  • DescriptionIrish filmmaker and fiction writer
  • BornFebruary 25, 1950
  • CountryIreland
  • ProfessionFilm Director; Writer; Screenwriter; Film Producer; Novelist
  • AwardsAcademy Award For Best Writing (Original Screenplay); Writers Guild Of America Award