Neil Jordan

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

— Neil Jordan

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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

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

— Neil Jordan

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

— Neil Jordan

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I do enjoy working with writers. ↗

— Neil Jordan

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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

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

— Neil Jordan

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

— Neil Jordan

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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

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

— Neil Jordan

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