"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."

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"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."

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"When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it."

Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian Philosopher

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"My sense was that most of the elected officials in Washington - in their heart of hearts - really believe that the system can't be too bad because it produced them."

DeForest Soaries, American Politician

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Christopher Lasch, American Historian

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Jane Austen, British Writer

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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John Ford, English Dramatist

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"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."

People

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

Film

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

Writing

"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."

Story

"I do enjoy working with writers."

Collaboration

"I mean I grew up in Ireland, so one would have to be consciously blinkered not to have reflected on the issue of political violence because that was the story since I was 19 years old or 20."

Experience

"It's the opposite journey from what I've usually done with films. I find it very easy to go from, say, a lit, pleasurable environment, like what you see outside there, to a very dark place. But the opposite journey, which is what this movie takes, is much more complicated."

Environment

"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."

Movies

"I've had three novels published, and I was working a little bit in theater in Ireland. I wrote one film script just to see what it would turn out like."

Film

"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."

Control