Latest Neil Jordan Quotes from Interviews

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• I don't know why anybody would come to Ireland chasing a dream or even employment - that's an extraordinary thing for a place where traditionally one was unemployed. For 10 years, people were coming from all over the world looking for employment here, kind of an extraordinary phenomenon. That's stopped now.

  Neil Jordan

  Dream, People, World

  Source: film.avclub.com

• You've got to play what people think you are, rather than what you are. You have to have a sense of what you are as you're playing what people think you are.

  Neil Jordan

  Thinking, People

  Source: film.avclub.com

• I just got back from New York, and I realized in New York, it's very difficult to hear a New York accent. It's almost impossible, actually - everybody seems to speak like they're from the Valley or something. When I grew up, you could tell what street in Dublin someone's from by the way they talked.

  Neil Jordan

  Impossible, Speak, Difficult

  Source: film.avclub.com

• Hollywood always chooses young and beautiful men and throws them into enormous, highly expensive toy-like movies, and I think sometimes it's hard for the maturity of the craft to emerge in that kind of glare.

  Neil Jordan

  Beautiful, Maturity, Men

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• The great thing about fairy tales and myths is that they go beyond character. They're not about character. They're about more basic things. They're about basic fears or longings or desires or fantasies, and stuff like that.

  Neil Jordan

  Character, Desire, Fairy Tale

  Source: film.avclub.com

• If you're brought up Catholic, you're convinced of magic at a very early age. You're convinced the world isn't entirely real, which is a kind of conviction that never leaves you, for some strange reason.

  Neil Jordan

  Real, Catholic, Magic

  Source: film.avclub.com

• Ireland is becoming like everywhere else, but that's the one I grew up in: the one that's hugely illogical. Rather wonderful, in a way. I never found this oppression of religion and that, but I did enjoy growing up in a culture that didn't need to be rational all of the time.

  Neil Jordan

  Growing Up, Culture, Wonderful

  Source: film.avclub.com

• The truth is that seals look more like dogs. And I'm surrounded by seals because I live by the sea. They're odd bloody creatures. Not fish, they don't have gills, they should have legs, but they don't. They're the weirdest things, you know?

  Neil Jordan

  Dog, Odd, Truth Is

  Source: film.avclub.com

• The whole Ireland was taken over by greed and materialism. It was extraordinary. The price of every house had skyrocketed. If you were a small farmer and you had two fields outside, if you built 17 bungalows on them all, you become a millionaire, that kind of thing. It was extraordinary to see how rapidly that kind of ethic takes over a whole culture, but that's what's happened to us since the year 1998, about. It's completely extraordinary how little regard the culture had for the landscape. The country is now full of these half-built industrial parks and hotels.

  Neil Jordan

  Country, Taken, House

  Source: film.avclub.com

• If movies have to satisfy every possible quadrant before they're even made, they're dull. You only get great things when people overreach themselves.

  Neil Jordan

  People, Dull, Made

  "Q&A: Neil Jordan, Master of the Vampire Movie". Interview with Paul Schrodt, www.esquire.com. June 27, 2013.

• I don't think we have enough imaginary creatures in cinema. It seems like we're stuck with zombies, vampires, and werewolves. We should have everything. We should have minotaurs. We should have elves. We should have mermen in popular culture. But instead we've stuck with vampires.

  Neil Jordan

  Thinking, Should Have, Zombie

  "Q&A: Neil Jordan, Master of the Vampire Movie". Interview with Paul Schrodt, www.esquire.com. June 27, 2013.