Neil Jordan (Neil Patrick Jordan) Quotes

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.

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• Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.

  

  Gary Busey
  • Fear
  • Dark
  • Devil

• With this film, 'Need For Speed,' with this, we had a blank canvas to work with. What we had to do was have fast cars, and that's it.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Work
  • Speed
  • Canvas

• I have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Republican
  • Conservative

• I am very close to my brother Ramesh Babu. When my father was away for shootings, my brother would take care of me, and I am very close to him, and yes, Dad's always special. He used to call me and enquire about my film's progress. Whenever I deliver a hit, I can see a glow on my father's face.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Father
  • Dad
  • Progress

• In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • Play
  • Unique
  • Trump

• Seriously, who doesn't want to slap a 27-year-old movie star?

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Movie
  • Want
  • Star

• People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • People
  • Long
  • Challenge

• I grew up in Deptford in south London, and at that time I used to wear toppers, loon pants and tonic suits from shops like Take 6 and Topman. I was a bit of a soul boy, but I had a very eclectic taste in music - I was into James Brown and Bowie; and I was the only kid in the neighbourhood who would also be listening to Chopin.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• I've stolen a couple of hearts and they are in my private collection!

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Couple
  • Hearts
  • Collection

• I don't particularly like L.A.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Like
  • Particularly

• Like all kids who want to be in action movies, I want to jump out of a speeding car, shoot guns, slide out the side in slow motion like a John Woo movie.

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • Kids
  • Movie
  • Action

• Love is just such a crucial, wonderful thing, and if you are lucky enough to find somebody who genuinely loves you, grab that person and hold on to that person, and nothing else matters.

  

  Randall Kennedy
  • Love
  • Lucky
  • Love Is

• What happens in the music business is that if you step out of your little spot to do something else, the sand falls right into where you stood and you're gone, you're history.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • Music
  • Business
  • History

• I'm a big routine guy. I have to have everything in threes.

  

  Sam Bradford
  • Guy
  • Everything
  • Big

• My mother reads tarot cards, actually, but I won't let her read mine.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Mother
  • Read
  • Cards

• I tried to hostess... but they fired me after four days because I couldn't figure out how seating plans worked.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Me
  • Plans
  • Worked

• In brief, Western democracy, as other political models, is not exportable to all regions of the world.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • World
  • Political
  • Democracy

• If you look at the market cap increase in Apple since it created the iPod versus what's happened to the music industry, you have to say Apple got the better part of that deal.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • Music
  • Better
  • Apple

• If you don't address race, then people are like, 'Why don't you talk about the elephant in the room?' But you have to do it right. It can't be gimmicky.

  

  Nora Lum
  • People
  • Why
  • Elephant

• She's anything but typical;She's so unpredictable.Oh but even at her worst it ain't that bad.She's as real as real can beAnd she's every fantasy.Lord she's every lover that I've ever had.And she's every lover that I've never had.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Real
  • She
  • Bad

• I don't think we have any choice. I think we have an obligation to change the rules, to raise the bar, to play a different game, and to play it better than anyone has any right to believe is possible.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Thinking

• 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.

  

  Neil Jordan
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