Neil Jordan
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"Neil Patrick Jordan" is an Irish film director, screenwriter and novelist. He won an Academy Award (Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay/Best Original Screenplay) for The Crying Game. He also won the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 48th Berlin International Film Festival/Berlin International Film Festival for The Butcher Boy (1997 film)/The Butcher Boy.

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If you were having an affair, with, say, your friend's wife, and you had to meet her... cross the street in San Francisco where you knew you wouldn't be observed. And you went to meet her one day, and she walked across the street and got his by a truck. And you say, first of all, 'oh God... I hope she's alive.' Secondly you say, 'I'm never ever going to do this again.

I began to see the character more as a metaphor for how a person survives and manages to maintain his innocence. I just love the bravery and elegance with which he faces the violence in the world.