Neil Jordan Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“When you've written a movie, you then get together with a whole lot of people and make it. In many ways, I think it is far nicer to be with people rather than being completely solitary.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“I can't do a film if I don't start with the writing.”

“I took two years away from making films to write a novel.”

“The End of the Affair is almost like a play.”

“There's no point in making a film out of a great book. The book's already great. What's the point?”