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The act of creation can be an extreme violent experience.

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Nicolas Winding Refn
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: September 29
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
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Extreme
Extremes
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Creation
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I've never really been on a date, because I've been with the same girl since my early twenties, but on our first date, I showed her The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. I was like, Hey, you've got to see this! And we've been together ever since.
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I woke up one day and I realized I wasn't born beautiful, but my wife was, so I decided to make a horror film about it: what it would be like to be born beautiful.
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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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When we met, my agenda was Get Elle Fanning. I believe Elle's was Get the role. But we didn't know that.
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Financing films that are demanding is a task, in itself. Because people are so afraid of taking any kind of chance, because they're afraid the audience isn't going to respond. But the audience is so hungry for anything that's a bit original, personal, or different.
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I can't make a film that I don't feel comfortable with.
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In a way Drive is probably the greatest superhero movie ever made.
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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 think when you make a movie, one of your main focuses as a director is to inspire everyone else to give their best. Like manipulation.
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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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If an actor or actress is recognizable, that changes our perception of them.
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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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Narcissism as a virtue is very futuristic. Narcissism as a quality is where I think things are heading.
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I always say I have a Danish passport, but I am a New Yorker at heart.
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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 always think once you have the lead protagonist, you cast around that character.
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I think the idea was to make a horror film that became a science-fiction film with a lot of melodramatic tropes.
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I don't drive because I failed eight times and never got my license.
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I feel that silence is the greatest word, ever. When you don't talk, people begin to read things into you or you become what they long for. When you don't talk, you almost become the mirror image of the other person.
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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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