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
cost extremely million movies
It is extremely difficult to get movies that cost more than $40 million to be made these days.
laughter grief way
I hoped that grief was similar to the other emotions. That it would end, the way happiness did. Or laughter.
filmmaking
For me, the filmmaking has to be about the dramaturgy.
stories movement littles
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.
book film great-book
There's no point in making a film out of a great book. The book's already great. What's the point?
writing two years
I took two years away from making films to write a novel.
enjoy
I do enjoy working with writers.
writing film ifs
I can't do a film if I don't start with the writing.
directors certain situation
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.
nice long hollywood
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.
dark journey opposites
It's the opposite journey from what I've usually done with films. I find it very easy to go from, say, a lit, pleasurable environment, like what you see outside there, to a very dark place. But the opposite journey, which is what this movie takes, is much more complicated.
dream character example
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.
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.
way stories storytelling
Well, I suppose I'm interested in ways of storytelling and in stories that are about storytelling.