In Dreams... well, I was slightly overcompensating with that. I was a bit like a director for hire, so maybe I was putting too much imagery that was familiar to me into it.

The two films however are very different with Crying Game being a realistic thriller/romance and Breakfast on Pluto a much more episodic stylized darkly comic biography. But it left me with no scars whatever; it just sort of vaniNeil Jordand. " Later Jordan attended University College Dublin where he studied Irish history and English literature.

Neil Patrick Jordan (born 25 February 1950) is an Irish filmmaker and novelist. He won an Academy Award (Best Original Screenplay) for The Crying Game. He also won the Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlin International Film Festival for The Butcher Boy.