Why should a horror film be just a horror film? To me, The Company of Wolves is a fairy tale; it's got all those elements plus a lot more. And we know that fairy tales aren't innocent any more.
Interpretation
The quote suggests that horror films can transcend their genre and incorporate deeper themes, like those found in fairy tales.
Neil Jordan posits that horror films, exemplified by 'The Company of Wolves', can serve a greater narrative purpose beyond mere fright. By integrating elements of fairy tales, he indicates that these stories often reflect complex themes and societal truths, revealing that their innocence has long been lost, and inviting a deeper exploration of the human experience.
In practice
During a film studies class discussing genre-blending techniques.
The Company of Wolves is about how society teaches young women to look at themselves, and what to be afraid of. It's about a girl learning that the world of sensuality and the unknown is not to be feared, that it's worth getting your teeth into.
You always hear these stories of how Hollywood is so merciless on composers and how they all get beaten up. Nobody beats me up as much as I beat myself up. This is what I love doing and I have one life to do it in, and I better do it right. I better do it well.
Photography in our time leaves us with a grave responsibility. While we are playing in our studios with broken flowerpots, oranges, nude studies and still lifes, one day we know that we will be brought to account: life is passing before our eyes without our ever having seen a thing.
The production of a work of art is determined by the material and intellectual climate in which a man lives and dies.
It is my feeling that a story is not finished until it is read, and that the reader finishes it through his or her life experience, prejudices, worldview and thoughts.
When you're writing fiction or poetry... it really comes down to this: indifference to everything except what you're doing... A young writer could do worse than follow the advice given in those lines.
And I may often question choices I make as a producer. But I've never questioned the choices I make as a director.
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