Querying and Structuring Data - Neo4j Essentials - page 108

There is another way of writing cypher queries where we can combine multiple statements
into one single statement. Extending the preceding example, we can combine all three
CREATE statements into one single CREATE statement and add a RETURN in the end to
see the actual value of nodes and relationships persisted in the Neo4j database:
CREATE (actor:Actor {Name: "Russell Crowe", Age:
50})-[r:ACTED_IN{Language:"English"}]->(movie:Movie {Title:
"NOAH", Year:2014}) return actor,r,movie;
We can also capture the pattern defined in the preceding statement in a variable and then
return the variable to the invoking program:
CREATE p = (:Actor {Name: "Russell Crowe", Age:
50})-[:ACTED_IN{LANGUAGE:"English"}]->(:Movie {Title:
"NOAH",
Year:2014})<-[:DIRECTED{LANGUAGE:"English"}]-(:Actor {Name:
"Darren Aronofsky", Age: 45})
return p;
Capturing patterns in a variable also helps in situations where all parts of patterns are not
already in the scope of a single CREATE or MATCH . For example, in the preceding query,