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...
kids
The kids were going insane, 50. I thought someone was going to get injured.
hundred known
It was like I'd known him for a hundred years.
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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.
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.
cause felt ghetto grew inside knew
I kind of grew up in a neighborhood like that, so I felt I knew 50, ... to go inside the ghetto and see what's the cause of the rage.
liked music rap
I've liked rap music for 10, 15 years,
everybody lost nobody saying stop
I was going to everybody and saying, 'You've got to stop this,' and nobody was saying no, so I just lost my head.
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I think there's an affinity with the Irish and black culture in many ways. I think tap emerged from Irish dancing when we came over with our hard shoes. Blacks watched it and developed it with hands and body and made it a different thing. There are many ways in how the cultures cross each other.
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He was very good. Very charismatic, funny, relaxed. I think he could do another movie. And he was able to show vulnerability, totally different from the image in the rap world.
line reality walking
We were always walking the line between reality and fiction.