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

Nicolas Winding Refn

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Nicolas Winding Refn
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: September 29
Film Director
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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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That's half of what we do our daily lives - we react to our surroundings. Of course, we have to make it entertaining, and we are entertainers.
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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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Good and bad, what's good and bad? I don't know.
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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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I think that Danish people may be thought off as the happiest people, but honestly...I love America.
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The future is not about what you do, it's about what you stand for.
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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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I love films, I love movies, I love television, I love television series, I love the internet, I love anything that enhances images. But most of all, I love, love movies.
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Only God Forgives was very much a generation gap in a way. It was all the youth of the world that embraced it. I make films for young people. That's what I will continue to do.
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I don't drive because I failed eight times and never got my license.
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I think that experiencing through art is a wonderful way to expand the horizon and everything around it.
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I just think it was time [in THe Neon Demon]to do a film about women. But not just women, I wanted to do a movie about a teenage girl. It was a great counter to the masculinity of Drive.
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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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Abbey Lee was a very famous model and had great success. She was very open about the negative aspects of that industry.
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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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I just close my eyes and I fantasize what I would like to see.
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Doing your first film, it's very important that it's a commercial success, because that gives you a couple times to experiment until you have to hit the jackpot again.
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