"It's hard to know whether certain characters come to life or not, they either come to have their own life or they don't. I've written many things in which the characters just remain inert."

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Source : "Horns and Halos: An Interview with Neil Jordan". Interview with Michael Koresky, reverseshot.org. November 10, 2005.

Neil Jordan

#Character Quotes #Certain Quotes

“Who says that actors are cattle? Show me a cow who can earn a million dollars a film.”
“The trouble with me is, I belong to a vanishing race. I'm one of the intellectuals.”

Source : The Petrified Forest act 1 (1934)
“I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.”
“Printer's ink, when it spells out a doctor's promise to cure, is one of the subtlest and most dangerous of poisons.”

Source : Samuel Hopkins Adams (1912). “The Great American fraud”
“I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I'm likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination.”
“One upside of the heat. Kind of cool to see a cat pant.”
“I don't want to do television. A TV show sitcom? I don't even watch TV.”
“It's not like I'm narrating stories with music behind them. It's all kind of one thing. You hope you can provoke a specific emotional reaction, but in ways that aren't quite plain.”

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