Neil Jordan Quotes

You never forget the discovery years. First kisses. The first time you try certain foods.

I watched 'My Girl' as an adult pretty recently, and it's a good movie.

Some of my favorite memories happened in the 'Boy Meets World' classroom.

If you make a film about childhood, you've got to pick a moment - you know, 'The 400 Blows.'

Persona-wise, I represent a lot of people's childhoods.

I was scared of the devil starting around age nine. Before that, I was gathering every family member in the living room, slipping a shirt over my robe so the bottom hung like a skirt and performing Gloria Estefan songs with feverish intensity.

Everyone in the '80s grew up, and for a lot of the film executives, that's what they know and love.

I grew up in Le Mars, Iowa, and even though it's a great place to grow up and be raised as a kid, there wasn't a lot to do. It was fairly boring, and I think the way I either escaped the boredom or found a way to keep myself occupied was through movies and TV shows.

I first read 'Tom Sawyer' when I was in 8th grade, 13 years old. I realised since that Mark Twain just bottled what it felt like to be a child.

I have been brought up in an environment which was quite an exciting childhood.

'The Wood' was sort of like 'American Graffiti' for me in a lot of different ways.

'Welcome to the Dollhouse' is great. Even though it's about a girl in middle school, to me, that feels like the most honest reflection of what being a kid around that age feels like.

The children in 'Nobody Knows' had a resonance with me. The children are projections of myself.

Falling head over heels in love with women was a habit I thought I'd thoroughly grown out of in middle school, when a group of about five girls and I color-coordinated our outfits and spent weekends and even some weeknights sprawled out in each others bedrooms.

When I was younger I looked a bit like Matthew Modine out of 'Birdy'.

I know I'm grown, but there's a part of me who will eternally be six years old.

I have a certain memory of the way in which my father loved me until I was 10, and it was unconditional and eternal. I get to carry that for the rest of my life, but on a practical level after age 10, it's just me sort of figuring it out.

People will say, 'What's your favorite part of Cincinnati?' I'm like, 'I was nine, man. I liked recess and having snacks. I didn't go anywhere. I was a kid.'

I think 'Badlands' is my favorite movie because it reminded me of where I was from.

I love telling 'first' stories - first loves, first college experience, first kiss, all of those kinds of things.

The first movie that ever scared me, I feel like it wasn't a scary movie. I feel like it was 'Dennis the Menace' or something.

I very much want to write about some elements of my own growing up.

It's weird because I grew up in this town, so the things I really dug, I was constantly around them. Like Alyssa Milano - I had the biggest crush on her from TV, but I also saw her around town at parties. It's just funny.

When I saw the scene in 'Close Encounters,' and Richard Dreyfuss's son is screaming at him - that's a heartbreaking scene. And I remember being devastated by 'E.T.' Or when E.T. started to get sick. That broke me up a little bit.

The problem with growing up is that once you're grown up, the people who aren't grown up aren't fun anymore.