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By AnonymNicolas Winding Refn
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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By AnonymNicolas Winding Refn
Actually, there was one sequence but Liv didn't put this in but at the end of the movie, we ran out of money. Literally, ran out. And I couldn't make payroll. So I emptied all our accounts to make payroll. We were kinda like, "What do we do?" Then out of the blue, we were saved by Gucci. So it's always been like, you just gotta reach for the stars and hopefully the moon will catch you.
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By AnonymNicolas Winding Refn
All my other movies have the same process. Same approach. Same amount of changes. Everything. Things being made up on the fly. Changing things around. Firing and recasting. Constantly, constantly, in chronological sequence, not really knowing how this is going to end up. That is the only dogmatic approach I take towards everything.
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By AnonymNicolas Winding Refn
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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By AnonymNicolas Winding Refn
And to be fair, most documentaries are half an hour too long, anyway. Let's not kid ourselves. Most movies are an hour too long. I will say that the internet has changed everything in terms of distribution and because of iTunes and other outlets like that, length is no longer something you really think about, in my opinion. It's irrelevant.
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By AnonymNicolas Winding Refn
Beauty is on one level pure surface, and on the other hand, it's the most complex subject that we can touch upon because it says everything about us as people. It's a subject we very quickly begin to argue about. I think that's so interesting.
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By AnonymNicolas Winding Refn
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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By AnonymNicolas Winding Refn
Cinema is mass media, it is both overtly gross and exciting. It is our great mirror of society.
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By AnonymNicolas Winding Refn
Creativity is narcissism. Creativity is falling in love with one's self as you create. It's self-indulgent.
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By AnonymNicolas Winding Refn
Creativity is very self-indulgent.
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By AnonymNicolas Winding Refn
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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By AnonymNicolas Winding Refn
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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By AnonymNicolas Winding Refn
Filmmaking is like any kind of art form. You have to try to figure it out, and you're going to do that by trying. It's like teaching a child to walk. It may start by walking, but eventually it will fall. And I have kids, but I know that that will enable them to stand up again and understand why they fell, and how they can avoid that. They will walk better and faster, and stronger. Filmmaking is the same.
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By AnonymNicolas Winding Refn
Film works when a director and a star have a connection. You know, when there's something telekinetic between them, there's a partnership, it's like alter egos. It's like James Stewart and Alfred Hitchcock, or Fellini and Mastroianni. I'm not comparing, I'm just saying, if you can come into a relationship where the director and star have such a bond, it's so much easier to make a movie.
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By AnonymNicolas Winding Refn
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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By AnonymNicolas Winding Refn
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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By AnonymNicolas Winding Refn
For me, Amazon has stepped in and presented the future of entertainment. Obviously, the future of entertainment is going to be on the internet.
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By AnonymNicolas Winding Refn
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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By AnonymNicolas Winding Refn
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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By AnonymNicolas Winding Refn
I always say I have a Danish passport, but I am a New Yorker at heart.
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By AnonymNicolas Winding Refn
I always think once you have the lead protagonist, you cast around that character.
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By AnonymNicolas Winding Refn
I am a child of cinema, and I am a cineaste, so everything I do is a reference to something I've heard or experienced or seen. And we all do it, we all steal. The ones who claim they don't, are obviously lying, because you do. You just have to make it your own.
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By AnonymNicolas Winding Refn
I believe shooting chronologically gives you a very fresh perspective and you're always aware of where you are in the development of the characters.
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By AnonymNicolas Winding Refn
I can do my part of the storytelling. I can carry it. I can paint it. I can maneuver it. I can massage it. But if I don't have anything to work with, then there's nothing.
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By AnonymNicolas Winding Refn
I can't make a film that I don't feel comfortable with.
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By AnonymNicolas Winding Refn
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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By AnonymNicolas Winding Refn
I consider it a great honour that my movie Drive inspired so many wonderful artists to come together and create one ultra-cool glam experience.
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By AnonymNicolas Winding Refn
I don't believe that art makes people violent in any way. I don't. But I do believe art can show people how to be violent and that's much more dangerous in a way.
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By AnonymNicolas Winding Refn
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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By AnonymNicolas Winding Refn
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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By AnonymNicolas Winding Refn
If an actor or actress is recognizable, that changes our perception of them.
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By AnonymNicolas Winding Refn
I feel Amazon is really bringing films into the future. So for me it was the best of both worlds.
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By AnonymNicolas Winding Refn
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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By AnonymNicolas Winding Refn
If the Wizard of Oz were real he would be in Hollywood.
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By AnonymNicolas Winding Refn
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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By AnonymNicolas Winding Refn
I grew up in the '80s and John Hughes was the filmmaker making serious movies for teenagers.
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By AnonymNicolas Winding Refn
I had met Keanu [Reeves]a few times so it was a great way to reach out to him with an actual job offer. He very kindly agreed to be part of it and it was an amazing experience.
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By AnonymNicolas Winding Refn
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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By AnonymNicolas Winding Refn
I like doing the promotional work. It's part of the film's process. Cannes was very wonderful to premiere.
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By AnonymNicolas Winding Refn
I like the early comic book characters more than the new ones.
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By AnonymNicolas Winding Refn
I love fear, and fear breeds creativity. It forces you to react instinctively, which is the essence of movement. Movement is a creativity - a sense of an emotional movement. And the more instinctual you can make that, the more pleasurable it is. It's like an infant drawing. You're completely uninhibited because creativity is a wonderful expression. Good or bad, who cares? That's part of the past. The act of creativity is what's interesting.
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By AnonymNicolas Winding Refn
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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By AnonymNicolas Winding Refn
I love rock ballads, and I'm kind of in emotional turmoil, being ill and high, so I start to sing to the song, I turn it up and start to sing.
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By AnonymNicolas Winding Refn
I'm a fetish filmmaker, in that I don't know why I do what I do, I just like to see things. When I figure out what I would like to see, I will put it in a film.
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By AnonymNicolas Winding Refn
I'm a very feminine man. I like feminine things. I don't go to strip clubs. I don't drink beer. I don't play sports.
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By AnonymNicolas Winding Refn
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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By AnonymNicolas Winding Refn
In a way, art is a great way to release your love, fantasy, and desires. It's like a fetish. It's a comfortable way of excising a lot of your conscience.
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By AnonymNicolas Winding Refn
In a way "Drive" is probably the greatest superhero movie ever made.
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By AnonymNicolas Winding Refn
In "Drive," there's a heightened male edge. In "Only God Forgives," it was almost crawling back into the womb of the mother. And now with "The Neon Demon," being reborn as a 16-year-old girl.
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By AnonymNicolas Winding Refn
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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