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.
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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.
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I have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans.
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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.
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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.
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Seriously, who doesn't want to slap a 27-year-old movie star?
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People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else.
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I've stolen a couple of hearts and they are in my private collection!
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I don't particularly like L.A.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I'm a big routine guy. I have to have everything in threes.
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My mother reads tarot cards, actually, but I won't let her read mine.
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I tried to hostess... but they fired me after four days because I couldn't figure out how seating plans worked.
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In brief, Western democracy, as other political models, is not exportable to all regions of the world.
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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.
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A lot of people have helped me along the way. But you know the biggest thing for me was when computer animation came along.
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When I wrote 'Silver Linings,' I thought I was writing a book about the Philadelphia Eagles and male bonding, but when the book came out, it was surprising to me that the mental health community embraced it.
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The decision to retire was quite an easy one for me because by that stage my knees were so badly gone. If I had been like Martina Navratilova and my body had let me I would have carried on playing a lot longer.
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If I were to do a sequel, it would be with Sophie as a very old woman and The BFG the same, a bit like that 'Let the Right One' in film.
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I'm always trying to look for different roles.
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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.
