"I've also worked hard portraying an Ireland which is fast disappearing. Ireland was a very depressed and difficult place in the 1980s, and I've tried to include that in the script. I worked really hard to find the heart of the book."
"And I think I often choose to do something because it's quite different from what I've done before."
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Source: In the Company of Neil Jordan: Teaching Little Girls Not to be Afraid of Wolves. Interview with Michael Dare, first published in LA Weekly, April 19, 1985.
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