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I always say I have a Danish passport, but I am a New Yorker at heart.

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Nicolas Winding Refn
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: September 29
Film Director
Film Producer
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København
Danish
Yorker
Passport
Passports
Heart
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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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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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When you make something that everyone likes, it's very easy to say, Well, I'll just repeat that. Because that was easy. I have a formula. But creatively, it's not very interesting.
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If an actor or actress is recognizable, that changes our perception of them.
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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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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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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 like doing the promotional work. It's part of the film's process. Cannes was very wonderful to premiere.
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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 artificial world that we create through images will essentially become real.
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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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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 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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[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 also believe on a practical level, if you're taking time away from people, besides entertaining them, I think it's important that there's something to react to.
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I always think once you have the lead protagonist, you cast around that character.
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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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