69 Quotes by Neil Jordan

Never make a promise – you may have to keep it.

The Company of Wolves is about how society teaches young women to look at themselves, and what to be afraid of. It’s about a girl learning that the world of sensuality and the unknown is not to be feared, that it’s worth getting your teeth into.

I had made a decision, although I hardly knew it yet. It’s often that way with decisions, they’re made in some hidden part of us and the awareness secretes itself slowly into that conscious part of us that imagines it decides.

Nina felt an inordinate pleasure, a pleasure that seemed to creep up on her the way the mud oozed through her barefoot toes.

Well, I suppose I’m interested in ways of storytelling and in stories that are about storytelling.

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.

It’s the same thing in a way, although writing a book is a very solitary thing.

I’ve also worked hard portraying an Ireland which is fast disappearing. Ireland was a very depressed and difficult place in the 1980s, and I’ve tried to include that in the script. I worked really hard to find the heart of the book.

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.