"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."
"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."
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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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