Neil Jordan
Neil Jordan
Neil Patrick Jordanis an Irish film director, screenwriter and novelist. He won an Academy Awardfor The Crying Game. He also won the Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlin International Film Festival for The Butcher Boy...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth25 February 1950
CountryIreland
dream too-much directors
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.
regret confused thinking
Well, if you're talking about the current climate, there's a lack of content in American film because I think people are deeply confused about their emotions, and they don't regret certain aspects of their own foreign policy.
way stories storytelling
Well, I suppose I'm interested in ways of storytelling and in stories that are about storytelling.
fairy-tale tales wells
Well, Company of Wolves was about that literally, about fairy tales.
thinking different done
And I think I often choose to do something because it's quite different from what I've done before.
littles scripts three
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.
nice writing select
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.
expression organization people
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.
growing-up kids boys
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.
cutting variation lines
Films have gotten leaner and leaner, cutting out all variations from the story line.
american-movie wells comfortable
I'm less comfortable making American movies because I don't know them so well.
cost these-days made
It is extremely difficult to get movies that cost more than $40 million to be made these days.
elements fairy horror plus tales
Why should a horror film be just a horror film? To me, The Company of Wolves is a fairy tale; it's got all those elements plus a lot more. And we know that fairy tales aren't innocent any more.
kids
No, I just thought of a story and wrote down what I saw. It was about two kids in Ireland who went around killing people. It was called Travelers, and it was made as an independent film.