“The whole Ireland was taken over by greed and materialism. It was extraordinary. The price of every house had skyrocketed. If you were a small farmer and you had two fields outside, if you built 17 bungalows on them all, you become a millionaire, that kind of thing. It was extraordinary to see how rapidly that kind of ethic takes over a whole culture, but that's what's happened to us since the year 1998, about. It's completely extraordinary how little regard the culture had for the landscape. The country is now full of these half-built industrial parks and hotels.” KindCountryCultureHouseTakenEthicsExtraordinaryGreedHotelMaterialismFarmersIrelandMillionaire Author:Neil Jordan
“If you're brought up Catholic, you're convinced of magic at a very early age. You're convinced the world isn't entirely real, which is a kind of conviction that never leaves you, for some strange reason.” WorldKindRealReasonAgeMagicStrangeCatholicConviction Author:Neil Jordan
“Hollywood always chooses young and beautiful men and throws them into enormous, highly expensive toy-like movies, and I think sometimes it's hard for the maturity of the craft to emerge in that kind of glare.” ThinkingMenKindSometimesBeautifulMaturityYoung And Beautiful Author:Neil Jordan
“I don't know why anybody would come to Ireland chasing a dream or even employment - that's an extraordinary thing for a place where traditionally one was unemployed. For 10 years, people were coming from all over the world looking for employment here, kind of an extraordinary phenomenon. That's stopped now.” PeopleWorldKindDreamExtraordinaryPhenomenonIreland Author:Neil Jordan
