Nicolas Winding Refn Quotes
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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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I think that experiencing through art is a wonderful way to expand the horizon and everything around it.
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You know the one I want to do? I want to make Batgirl.
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Financially, it was very successful. Which is the most important thing. That is the only way you get to make another movie. It's very simple. The market will value you.
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I mean, what do you think creativity is? Nothing but self-indulgence. And the more self-indulgent it is, the more interesting it becomes. So I think that part of creativity is also falling in love with your own narcissism: accepting it, using it as an asset.
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If an actor or actress is recognizable, that changes our perception of them.
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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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I never desired to really go to Hollywood and make films, and purely because I want my entire control, which I'm used to having.
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If the Wizard of Oz were real he would be in Hollywood.
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Elle Fanning was fifteen when we started [The Neon Demon]. She turned seventeen during the shoot. Four weeks before Cannes, she turned eighteen. She had her prom at Cannes.
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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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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 think the idea of individualism has become more dominating in our society. You can even see it by our political system: how people vote, the job situation, the sociological evolution that's happening, what's happening in the Middle East and so forth.
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I have not seen "Batman v Superman," unfortunately. It hasn't been on the plane, as I've been flying a lot.
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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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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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The thing with Ryan, you can look at him for hours. Very few actors have that. It's a gift.
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Amazon, being a provider - not just on the playing field - is, of course, opening up a whole new set of possibilities. At the same time, Amazon also understands platforms. For them, theatrical is an extremely important event. I also believe it's the best way of seeing a movie.
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In a way "Drive" is probably the greatest superhero movie ever made.
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If you create something that is essentially alien to you - as a man - and make a film about woman, the more I can surround myself with woman and combine it with my soul's point of view, the more I become a stranger in a strange land.
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The idea of narcissism, essentially, is and will be accepted as a virtue.
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Like all art forms, film is a media as powerful as weapons of mass destruction; the only difference is that war destroys and film inspires.
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Everything we do is about the emotion of the characters. We believe the better the emotion, the better the movie.
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I've been lucky to have a beautiful wife and children. The idea that something so beautiful can be so horrific at the same time. Beauty is a complex thing.
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I love watching the superhero movies and I would love to make one.
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I don't have to go very far to see the power of beauty. Being desired, feeling desired is a very seductive aspect of our being.
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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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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 feel Amazon is really bringing films into the future. So for me it was the best of both worlds.
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The future is not about what you do, it's about what you stand for.
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