Neil Jordan Quotes

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.

Neil Jordan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: director
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: February 25, 1950

Topics

TogetherPeopleThinkGet Together

When people said Africa would change me, I didn't understand what they meant. To see the poverty in the townships, for instance, is overwhelming. I found it heart-wrenching to see young children walking barefoot and hungry in the dirt. I'm the kind of person who wants to change the world right here and now, so I got frustrated.

Jennifer Hudson

ChangeChildrenChange The WorldMe

Our votes must go together with our guns. After all, any vote we shall have, shall have been the product of the gun. The gun which produces the vote should remain its security officer - its guarantor. The people's votes and the people's guns are always inseparable twins.

Robert Mugabe

TogetherPeopleGunSecurityVote

The story of rural India is a lack of empowerment: perceived impotence. Villagers are being constantly threatened by an authority. The Bolero symbolizes empowerment.

Anand Mahindra

StoryIndiaEmpowermentAuthority

God never does anything wrong. He knows what is best for me. No man can understand God, or know why He deals with us as He does.

Standing Bear

GodBestManMeWrongKnow

I played golf all over Detroit.

Smokey Robinson

GolfDetroitOverPlayed

Movies always are open to being remade because times change so much, and the tempo of movies changes. I think of it like a James Bond. They can have different actors play the same role... I've had people come up to me and say, 'We want to remake 'The Jerk' with so and so.' And I say, 'Fine.' It just doesn't bother me. It's an honor actually.

Steve Martin

ChangePeopleMeBondThinkHonor

The FBI Academy teaches new agents that the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior.

Ronald Kessler

FutureBestPastBehaviorNewFBI

If the moral good of fiction stems mainly from a habit of mind it inculcates in the reader, styles are neither good nor bad, and to describe some fictional enterprises as false is pointless.

Mary Gordon

GoodHabitMindBadMoralFiction

Characters written in 1990 would be acting like idiots if they were cast into the present. For example, the reader might wonder: Why isn't she texting? Where's her cellphone? Can't she have a simple paternity test? For God's sake, look on the Internet and check him out!

Lisa Jackson

GodSimplePresentInternetLook

A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.

Joshua Reynolds

NatureGreatNeverAnythingMere

It is good that these terrorists are now facing justice, but in the reporting of the case, it would be helpful if the media didn't help them with their propaganda mission by unquestioningly repeating false information about their detention.

Jose Rodriguez

GoodJusticeMediaHelpInformation

I did 12 years with nuns, you know. So I came out of it going, like, 'I think Jesus is all right.' The rest of it I think stinks to the high heavens.

Denis Leary

RestThinkYouKnowRightHigh

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