Neil Jordan

“And I think I often choose to do something because it's quite different from what I've done before.”

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

“It is extremely difficult to get movies that cost more than $40 million to be made these days.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I'm less comfortable making American movies because I don't know them so well.”

“I do enjoy working with writers.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”