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

Neil Jordan

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Neil Jordan

You are intelligent, you are diplomatic, you are beautiful, and you are and always will be...[he kisses her]...MINE...

Neil Jordan

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

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

Neil Jordan

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

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

Neil Jordan

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

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'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

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