Neil Jordan Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Well, Company of Wolves was about that literally, about fairy tales.