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Neil Jordan Biography

Neil Patrick Jordan (born 25 February 1950) is an Irish film director, screenwriter, novelist and short-story writer. His first book, Night in Tunisia, won a Somerset Maugham Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1979. He won an Academy Award (Best Original Screenplay) for The Crying Game (1992). He also won the Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlin International Film Festival for The Butcher Boy (1997).

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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.

Disposal, Film, Hollywood, Long, Nice, Work

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.

Directors, Dream, Dreams, Familiar, Imagery, Too Much

Ireland is becoming like everywhere else, but that's the one I grew up in: the one that's hugely illogical. Rather wonderful, in a way. I never found this oppression of religion and that, but I did enjoy growing up in a culture that didn't need to be rational all of the time.

Culture, Enjoy, Growing Up, Time, Wonderful

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

Keep, Make, May, Promise

The whole Ireland was taken over by greed and materialism. It was extraordinary. The price of every house had skyrocketed. If you were a small farmer and you had two fields outside, if you built 17 bungalows on them all, you become a millionaire, that kind of thing. It was extraordinary to see how rapidly that kind of ethic takes over a whole culture, but that's what's happened to us since the year 1998, about. It's completely extraordinary how little regard the culture had for the landscape. The country is now full of these half-built industrial parks and hotels.

Country, Taken, House, Happened, Small

The truth is that seals look more like dogs. And I'm surrounded by seals because I live by the sea. They're odd bloody creatures. Not fish, they don't have gills, they should have legs, but they don't. They're the weirdest things, you know?

Creatures, Dog, Odd, Truth, Truth Is, Weirdest

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.

Different, Movement, Movements, Program, Stories, Story

If you're brought up Catholic, you're convinced of magic at a very early age. You're convinced the world isn't entirely real, which is a kind of conviction that never leaves you, for some strange reason.

Catholic, Convinced, Magic, Real, Reason

You've got to play what people think you are, rather than what you are. You have to have a sense of what you are as you're playing what people think you are.

People, Play, Sense, Think, Thinking

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

Dramaturgy, Filmmaking

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.

Certain, Character, Characters, Inert, Know, Knows

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.

Ireland, Issue, Issues, Mean, Story, Years

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, Throws, Young

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

Film, Ifs, Start, Writing

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, Know, Looking, People, Thing, World

Well, I suppose I'm interested in ways of storytelling and in stories that are about storytelling.

Interested, Stories, Storytelling, Suppose, Way, Ways

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.

Expression, Intentions, Organization, People, Thing

Is it fair to have given us the memory of what was and the desire of what could be when we must suffer what is?

Desire, Given, Memories, Memory, Suffering

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

Cutting, Stories, Story, Variation, Variations

Well, Company of Wolves was about that literally, about fairy tales.

Company, Fairy, Fairy Tale, Tales, Wells

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