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Neil Jordan

"I'm less comfortable making American movies because I don't know them so well."

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Donna Grant

"Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him."

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Donna Grant

"Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine."

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Donna Grant

"I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies."

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Donna Grant

"There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life. But even those movies teach me things."

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Donna Grant

"If I showed you scripts from my first few movies, the descriptions of my characters all said 'the ugly girl'."

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Donna Grant

"The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed."

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Donna Grant

"I think the reason we're so crazy sexually in America is that all our responses are acting. We don't know how to feel. We know how it looked in the movies."

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Donna Grant

"Yes, I'm going to be the President of the United States. You know why? You think you can get chicks by being in the movies? You can really get chicks by being the President."

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Donna Grant

"I coach my daughter's softball and basketball team. We go to all the school functions. We go out to eat at night and take the kids to the movies. We try to be as normal as we can."

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Donna Grant

"Nowadays they either want to move the film to Canada or in some cases they go to Prague or Romania or they want to keep 'em down in L.A."

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Neil Jordan
"But everyone gets burnt, don't they? Certain things are outside of your control. I suppose the only thing you can learn as a director is to not put yourself into situations where it can get outside of your control. And that's what happened."

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Neil Jordan
"I took two years away from making films to write a novel."

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Neil Jordan
"I'm less comfortable making American movies because I don't know them so well."

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Neil Jordan
"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."

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

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Neil Jordan
"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."

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Neil Jordan
"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."

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Neil Jordan
"I do enjoy working with writers."

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Neil Jordan
"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."

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Neil Jordan
"It's the same thing in a way, although writing a book is a very solitary thing."

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