Neil Jordan
Neil Jordan
Neil Patrick Jordanis an Irish film director, screenwriter and novelist. He won an Academy Awardfor The Crying Game. He also won the Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlin International Film Festival for The Butcher Boy...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth25 February 1950
CountryIreland
Neil Jordan quotes about
writing two years
I took two years away from making films to write a novel.
book film great-book
There's no point in making a film out of a great book. The book's already great. What's the point?
people dull made
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.
mean years issues
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.
thinking should-have zombie
I don't think we have enough imaginary creatures in cinema. It seems like we're stuck with zombies, vampires, and werewolves. We should have everything. We should have minotaurs. We should have elves. We should have mermen in popular culture. But instead we've stuck with vampires.
filmmaking
For me, the filmmaking has to be about the dramaturgy.
memories suffering desire
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?
laughter grief way
I hoped that grief was similar to the other emotions. That it would end, the way happiness did. Or laughter.
stories movement littles
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.
promise may
Never make a promise - you may have to keep it.
book writing way
It's the same thing in a way, although writing a book is a very solitary thing.
book writing way
It's the same thing in a way, although writing a book is a very solitary thing.