John Crowley

About John Crowley

John Crowley is an Irish theatre and film director. He is best known for the films Brooklyn (2015) and his debut feature, Intermission (2003), for which he won an Irish Film and Television Award for Best Director. He is a brother of the designer Bob Crowley.

Occupation: film director, television director, theatre director, director
Citizenship: Ireland
Born: 1969, August 19, 1969

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Bob Crowleysibling

Brooklynknown for Boy Aknown for Life After Lifeknown for The Goldfinchknown for Other Livesknown for Closed Circuitknown for Intermissionknown for Is Anybody There?known for We Live in Timenotable work University College Corkeducated at Irelandcountry of citizenship

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John Crowley (born 19 August 1969) is an Irish theatre and film director. He is best known for the films Brooklyn (2015) and his debut feature, Intermission (2003), for which he won an Irish Film and Television Award for Best Director. He is a brother of the designer Bob Crowley.

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Life and career

Early years and education

Crowley earned a BA in English and Philosophy (1990) and an MA in philosophy from University College Cork.

Career

Crowley became involved in theatre as a student, seeing it as a stepping stone to directing film. He began directing plays in Dublin in the early 1990s, reached London's West End by 1996 and eventually become an associate director at the Donmar Warehouse. In 2000, he directed Come and Go as part of the Beckett on Film series and made his feature debut Intermission (2003), a comedy drama set in Dublin, starring Colin Farrell, Cillian Murphy and Kelly Macdonald, based on a screenplay by playwright Mark O'Rowe.

Notable quotes

“The world is founded on a pillar which is founded on the Deep.”
— The Deep (1975)
“He knew there must be a Ring, and he patted his pocket where he had it; he thought there should be a Best Man, though when he wrote so to Daily Alice she wrote that they didn't believe in that; and as for Rehearsals, she said when he mentioned them, "Don't you want it to be a surprise?"”
— Bk. 1, Ch. 4
“It seems to him that he extends backwards (or is it forwards?) without beginning (or is it end?) and he can't just now remember whether the great tales and plots which he supposes he knows and forever broods on lie in the to-come or lie dead in the has-been. But then suppose that's how secrets are kept, and age-long tales remembered, and unbreakable curses made too.”
— Bk. 1, Ch. 4
“Sophie's hard first question to the cards had not, precisely, gone without an answer, it had been transmuted into questions about the question. It had branched and rooted like a tree, growing questions like buds, and then at some moment all the questions had become one question: what tree is this?”
— Bk. 3, Ch. 4

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