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
character certain hard
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.
directors certain situation
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.
cost extremely million movies
It is extremely difficult to get movies that cost more than $40 million to be made these days.
The End of the Affair is almost like a play.
kids
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.
elements fairy horror plus tales
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.
girl sensual looks
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.
cost these-days made
It is extremely difficult to get movies that cost more than $40 million to be made these days.
american-movie wells comfortable
I'm less comfortable making American movies because I don't know them so well.
cutting variation lines
Films have gotten leaner and leaner, cutting out all variations from the story line.
growing-up kids boys
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.
expression organization people
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.
nice writing select
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.
littles scripts three
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.