Quotes by Neil Jordan

Neil Jordan

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

Different

Done

Thinking

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.

Certain

Directors

Situation

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

Cutting

Stories

Variation

For example, the character of Claire in In Dreams wasn’t imagined enough by me. Annette Bening is a great actress, and she gave a great performance, but because I hadn’t fully written it essentially the character wasn’t finished.

Character

Dream

Example

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.

Nice

Select

Writing

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

Filmmaking

Hollywood always chooses young and beautiful men and throws them into enormous, highly expensive toy-like movies, and I think sometimes it’s hard for the maturity of the craft to emerge in that kind of glare.

Beautiful

Maturity

Men

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

Film

Ifs

Writing

I do enjoy working with writers.

Enjoy

I don’t know why anybody would come to Ireland chasing a dream or even employment – that’s an extraordinary thing for a place where traditionally one was unemployed. For 10 years, people were coming from all over the world looking for employment here, kind of an extraordinary phenomenon. That’s stopped now.

Dream

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Directors

Dog

Done

Dream

Dull

Enjoy

Example

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Fairy Tale

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Film

Filmmaking

Girl

Great Book

Grief

Growing Up

Heart

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House

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Quotes by Neil Jordan

Neil Jordan

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

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.

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

For example, the character of Claire in In Dreams wasn’t imagined enough by me. Annette Bening is a great actress, and she gave a great performance, but because I hadn’t fully written it essentially the character wasn’t finished.

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.

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

Hollywood always chooses young and beautiful men and throws them into enormous, highly expensive toy-like movies, and I think sometimes it’s hard for the maturity of the craft to emerge in that kind of glare.

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

I do enjoy working with writers.

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