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

#director #dreams #familiar #hire #i

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

#butcher #complete #environment #growing #growing up

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

— Neil Jordan

#days #difficult #extremely #get #made

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

#characters #come #either #hard #i

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

#because #disposal #film #hollywood #long

It's the same thing in a way, although writing a book is a very solitary thing. ↗

— Neil Jordan

#book #same #solitary #thing #very

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. ↗

— Neil Jordan

#bit #come #conception #develop #different

Never make a promise - you may have to keep it. ↗

— Neil Jordan

#make #may #never #promise #you

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. ↗

— Neil Jordan

#around #called #down #film #i

The Company of Wolves doesn't belong in any category, so it's difficult to prepare an audience for it. It's not a horror film, it's not a fantasy film, it's not a children's film - so what is it? ↗

— Neil Jordan

#audience #belong #category #children #company