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Neil Jordan Quotes
And I think I often choose to do something because it's quite different from what I've done before.
~ Neil Jordan
Because
Before
Choose
Different
Done
I Think
Often
Quite
Something
Think
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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
Burnt
Certain
Certain Things
Control
Director
Everyone
Get
Gets
Happened
Learn
Only
Outside
Put
Situations
Suppose
The Only Thing
Thing
Things
Where
You
Your
Yourself
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Films have gotten leaner and leaner, cutting out all variations from the story line.
~ Neil Jordan
Cutting
Films
Gotten
Line
Out
Story
Variations
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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
About
Am
Being
Brought
Concept
Going
How
I Am
Me
Nice
Now
Quite
Select
Studio
Work
Would
Write
You
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For me, the filmmaking has to be about the dramaturgy.
~ Neil Jordan
About
Filmmaking
Me
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I can't do a film if I don't start with the writing.
~ Neil Jordan
Film
Start
Writing
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I do enjoy working with writers.
~ Neil Jordan
Enjoy
Working
Writers
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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
Because
Grew
Ireland
Issue
Mean
Old
Political
Reflected
Since
Story
Up
Violence
Would
Years
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I took two years away from making films to write a novel.
~ Neil Jordan
Away
Films
Making
Novel
Took
Two
Write
Years
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I'm less comfortable making American movies because I don't know them so well.
~ Neil Jordan
American
American Movies
Because
Comfortable
Know
Less
Making
Movies
Them
Well
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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
1980s
Also
Book
Depressed
Difficult
Disappearing
Fast
Find
Hard
Heart
Include
Ireland
Place
Portraying
Really
Script
Tried
Very
Which
Worked
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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
Bit
Film
Had
Ireland
Just
Like
Little
Little Bit
Novels
Out
Published
Script
See
Theater
Three
Turn
Working
Would
Wrote
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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
Bit
Director
Dreams
Familiar
Hire
Imagery
Like
Maybe
Me
Much
Putting
Slightly
Too
Too Much
Well
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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
Boy
Butcher
Complete
Environment
Growing
Growing Up
I Remember
Initially
Kid
Remember
Strange
Up
Vision
Weird
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It is extremely difficult to get movies that cost more than $40 million to be made these days.
~ Neil Jordan
Cost
Days
Difficult
Extremely
Get
Made
Million
More
Movies
Than
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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
Certain
Characters
Come
Either
Hard
Just
Know
Life
Many
Own
Remain
Things
Whether
Which
Written
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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
Any
Because
Disposal
Film
Hollywood
Long
Make
Never
Nice
Put
Question
Resources
Right
Right Thing
The Right Thing
Thing
Work
Your
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It's the opposite journey from what I've usually done with films. I find it very easy to go from, say, a lit, pleasurable environment, like what you see outside there, to a very dark place. But the opposite journey, which is what this movie takes, is much more complicated.
~ Neil Jordan
Complicated
Dark
Dark Place
Done
Easy
Environment
Films
Find
Go
Journey
Like
Lit
More
Movie
Much
Opposite
Outside
Place
Pleasurable
Say
See
Takes
Very
Which
You
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It's the same thing in a way, although writing a book is a very solitary thing.
~ Neil Jordan
Although
Book
Same
Same Thing
Solitary
Thing
Very
Way
Writing
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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
Back
Bit
Come
Conception
Develop
Different
End
Film
Go
Little
Little Bit
Movements
Normal
Off
Program
Story
Trunk
You
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25 February, 1950
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