Jim Sheridan
Jim Sheridan
Jim Sheridanis an Irish film director. A six-time Academy Award nominee, Sheridan is perhaps best known for his films My Left Foot, In the Name of the Father, The Field and In America...
gangsters grew knew lost
I just knew his world. It was like the world I grew up in in Dublin. I knew gangsters and drugs and I was even in a band. It was like he was a long lost brother.
liked music rap
I've liked rap music for 10, 15 years,
hundred known
It was like I'd known him for a hundred years.
coming feeling jesus met minute prove somebody wounds wrote
I had that feeling the minute I met him that I could do a movie about somebody coming back from the dead, ... One of the times when I was getting a little hyperbolic and melodramatic, I wrote down, 'A black-gangster Jesus with the wounds to prove it.'
himself secrets
He's funny, he doesn't take himself too seriously. I think that's one of the secrets of his success, that it's a contradictory image.
line reality walking
We were always walking the line between reality and fiction.