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Understanding one's own power is more interesting than someone being given something powerful.

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Nicolas Winding Refn
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: September 29
Film Director
Film Producer
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I think that Danish people may be thought off as the happiest people, but honestly...I love America.
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Love comes from the strangest places.
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In a way Drive is probably the greatest superhero movie ever made.
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The future is not about what you do, it's about what you stand for.
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I was in Hollywood. It's the mythology heart. It's where all the European films came in the '30s and '40s. The marriage between Europe and Hollywood has always been the best when it works.
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The kind of group mentality that we had lived under since the Second World War is starting to erupt, and the craving for individualism is now much stronger. It's not as taboo anymore, as it was when I was younger.
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Narcissism as a virtue is very futuristic. Narcissism as a quality is where I think things are heading.
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I think everybody's looking for religion to believe in. I think we all need faith.
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I don't do drugs, and so music very much gets me going. When I do something, I think, If it was a piece of music, what would it be?
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I certainly believe that creativity must be an experience. If I'm to steal time away from people, we should give them something to react to.
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How can creativity be bad? You can have, I liked it or I didn't like it, but, in the end, it's an individual experience. How can you even begin to define that? I find that sometimes extremely arrogant and counter-productive.
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But once you get down to reality, there's no one to play her and there's no movie. It would be ridiculous.
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