Neil Jordan Quotes

• 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

• 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

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

  Neil Jordan

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

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

  Neil Jordan

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

  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

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

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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

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

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Neil Jordan (32)

Birth:	25th February, 1950
Nationality:	Irish
Profession:	Filmmaker, Novelist

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