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Narcissism as a virtue is very futuristic. Narcissism as a quality is where I think things are heading.

Nicolas Winding Refn

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Nicolas Winding Refn
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: September 29
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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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The first person I ever described the film [The Neon Demon] to was Christina Hendricks [who has a cameo in the movie]. We were having dinner in LA and she asked me what I wanted to do next and I said, I want to do a horror movie. And she goes, What's it going to be about? And I said, A lot of blood and high heels.
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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've been trying to get away from physical violence it's too easy it doesn't satisfy me artistically to work with it. Dramatic violence is much more interesting, but it's much more difficult.
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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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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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I can't make a film that I don't feel comfortable with.
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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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If an actor or actress is recognizable, that changes our perception of them.
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Good and bad, what's good and bad? I don't know.
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I don't drive because I failed eight times and never got my license.
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I love watching the superhero movies and I would love to make one.
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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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