Neil Jordan Quotes

I think I would like to write screenplays, books, really anything.

I definitely want to act and I want to sing. If those two fall through, I want to become a writer, probably, like a songwriter for other people, or a novel writer. I write a lot, and I read a lot. I like reading fiction.

I had always written. I had written stories and poems. Then I started writing plays.

I'm probably only going to make 10 movies, so I'm already planning on what I'm going to do after that. That's why I'm counting them. I have two more left. I want to stop at a certain point. What I want to do, basically, is I want to write novels, and I want to write theatre, and I want to direct theatre.

I don't aspire to direct like many actors. I would aspire most likely to do some writing, but I haven't had a chance to do that.

When I was a screenwriter, I was doing it for mercenary reasons.

I'm a writer. I'm not an actress.

I started trying to be a writer and failed for years. I tried novels, short stories, sitcoms, movies, plays, anything. And then, to support myself, I had millions of jobs on the fringes of show business.

I don't write plays for them to be turned into movies.

I want a career writing these novels that I can be proud of. And then I want one as a screenwriter.

I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays.

I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I'd rather write plays.

When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours.

I am a novelist turned temporary adventurer, and I chose to write television, movies and plays for much the same reason that Henry Morgan selected the Spanish Main for his peculiar - and not dissimilar - sphere of operations.

I write a lot too, so I would like to write or direct in the future if I can.

The comforts come from my movie and television writing. It is unusual to live this well simply from books.

I've been many kinds of writers in my career: novelist; tele-playwright; short story writer. As a high-school student, I wrote amateur pieces for fanzines, and I've written for Hollywood.

Before trying a novel I wrote a couple of plays.

I've always been a writer, I've always been a storyteller, but I never thought about screenwriting.

When people asked me what I was going to do when I grow up, I always said, 'I'm going to be a writer. I'm going to write screenplays. I'm going to write books. I'm going to write plays. That's what I'm going to do.'

I could see no position to say, 'I'm going to make a living as a writer.' But I went to classes for it; I read every play in 'Theater' magazine. I saw the second acts of everything on Broadway - I had a job as a CBS usher in New York City, and on my way home every night, I'd see what shows I could get into.

For most of my life - well, maybe half of my life, but basically until I was in my mid-20s - I wrote stories. From the time I was 5 or 6 until I was 25. And I read a lot of stories during that time.

I'm pursuing film and TV, and it's exciting because I feel I can write in almost any genre now.

I was a history major, but that was because it took the fewest requirements of any major. In my sophomore year, I started getting back into making movies. My senior year, I took playwriting classes, and I feel like that's where I learned to be a writer.

I think Jack Thorne is an exceptional writer.