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I grew up in the '80s and John Hughes was the filmmaker making serious movies for teenagers.

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Nicolas Winding Refn
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: September 29
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I am not a fan of improvisation, because it bores me. Working off a tight scenario gives you the confidence and ability to - why don't we change this a little bit and bring it back to the script. You always discover things while shooting.
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Love comes from the strangest places.
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It was a very comfortable and personal relationship [Cliff Martinez ].'The Neon Demon'is our third movie and the music has never been as important as for this movie.
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In a way Drive is probably the greatest superhero movie ever made.
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I feel Amazon is really bringing films into the future. So for me it was the best of both worlds.
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My initial idea was I wanted to make it a horror film, very much. At times I do enter that world.
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The vibe, it's that excitement. New York, you just can't describe it. You get a similar thing from Paris and London, but it's not New York.
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Beauty is on one level pure surface, and on the other hand, it's the most complex subject that we can touch upon because it says everything about us as people. It's a subject we very quickly begin to argue about. I think that's so interesting.
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I always say I have a Danish passport, but I am a New Yorker at heart.
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I don't know if power seduces less or more. I think power is a constant evolving mechanism that, since the dawn of time, on one level corrupts and on another level does not. But I think, no matter what, mutates.
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I just close my eyes and I fantasize what I would like to see.
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Sometimes I just play the theme from Arthur. It reminds me of my childhood in New York and I just love it.
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For me, Amazon has stepped in and presented the future of entertainment. Obviously, the future of entertainment is going to be on the internet.
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We live in a beauty-obsessed culture, which on one hand is absolutely fabulous, but on the flip side, is also dangerously extreme.
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Sometimes you can play against type, or you can just repeat what they've already done. It can be an obstacle it's a very fine line.
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I have not seen Batman v Superman, unfortunately. It hasn't been on the plane, as I've been flying a lot.
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[Liv Corfixen] very much part of my life in that she's everything in my life and we found a way to use each other much more on a creative level as well. She was kind of the idea for this movie so I wanted to acknowledge that. She gave me the original idea to make the film.
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I can't make a film that I don't feel comfortable with.
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I don't drive because I failed eight times and never got my license.
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[The Neon Demon] was more my own fascination with beauty. It's my children's fascination beauty.
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