8 Quotes & Sayings By Neil Jordan

Neil Jordan is an award-winning writer and director best known for his films The Crying Game, Michael Collins, Interview with the Vampire, The Butcher Boy and Breakfast on Pluto. His film Ondine was nominated for two Academy Awards, and he has been nominated twice for a BAFTA Award. He has been nominated four times for a Golden Globe Award, winning once. In 2004 he won the European Film Award for Best Screenwriter for The Good Thief Read more

In 2005 he won the BAFTA Scotland Award for Best Screenwriter. In 2008 he was awarded the BAFTA Scotland Award for Best British Film of the Decade.

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I hoped that grief was similar to the other emotions. That it would end, the way happiness did. Or laughter. Neil Jordan
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I am afraid of him now. The one I love most in the world. Neil Jordan
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Don't you understand brother? I want to find a love...that will free me from this love... Neil Jordan
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You are intelligent, you are diplomatic, you are beautiful, and you are and always will be...[he kisses her]... M I N E... Neil Jordan
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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. Neil Jordan
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A prince may be seen happy today and ruined tomorrow without having shown any chance in his character. For the prince who relies entirely on fortune is lost when it changes... Neil Jordan
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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. Neil Jordan