Jim Sheridan Quotes (10 Quotes)

I was going to everybody and saying, 'You've got to stop this,' and nobody was saying no, so I just lost my head.

I think there's an affinity with the Irish and black culture in many ways. I think tap emerged from Irish dancing when we came over with our hard shoes. Blacks watched it and developed it with hands and body and made it a different thing. There are many ways in how the cultures cross each other.

The kids were going insane, 50. I thought someone was going to get injured.

The first few days, I worked about seven hours on each scene with him. He just kept wanting to do it better. He never went to self-pity or said, 'What do you want from me' even though it was difficult. I knew he had resilience and self-confidence. He worked very hard, never complained, never was in a bad humor.

It was like I'd known him for a hundred years.

I had that feeling the minute I met him that I could do a movie about somebody coming back from the dead, ... One of the times when I was getting a little hyperbolic and melodramatic, I wrote down, 'A black-gangster Jesus with the wounds to prove it.'

He had a Muhammad Ali-kind of self-confidence, ... There's something in that culture, that if you're very confident, very expressive, you must be close to death. Because for hundreds of years, you weren't allowed to be like that. So when you repress people, and they can't express their natural soul and you keep them back and push them down, down, down -- you're going to get the diamonds that come up. And 50's one of them. He's like Muhammad Ali.

I thought city government was bad. It doesn't have anything on FEMA.

At the end of the movie people will wonder Is this the real 50 Cent Has he changed Is he acting a part All three are true,

For instance, in the original script, 50 Cent's character, Marcus, kills four rival drug dealers on a corner. I was asking the studio, 'Is this true' They said they don't know. 50 said no, ... So I said, one, if he did kill somebody, why advertise it, and two, if he didn't, why glorify it So I took it in a different direction.