Nicolas Winding Refn Quotes - Page 5

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• The best thing you can do with actors is collaborate with them. My job is to inspire them to give their best. And they're only inspired if they feel they are part of the creative process, otherwise they'll shut down. So my goal is always to ask people what they would like to do before I even say my opinion. I usually don't know anything until I see it. I'm a fetish filmmaker - I make films based on what I want to see.

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  People, Giving, Goal

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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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  Wonderful, Film, Cannes

  Source: movieweb.com

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• The kind of group mentality that we had lived under since the Second World War is starting to erupt, and the craving for individualism is now much stronger. It's not as taboo anymore, as it was when I was younger.

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  War, Stronger, Groups

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Jenna Malone was a very important piece of how the film [The Neon Demon] turned out.

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  Important, Pieces, Neon

  Source: movieweb.com

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• I think that Danish people may be thought off as the happiest people, but honestly...I love America.

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  Thinking, America, People

  Source: movieweb.com

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• I just close my eyes and I fantasize what I would like to see.

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  Eye

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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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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  Amazon, World, Film

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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• Ironically, even the fashion in New York or Paris or Milan or whatever, or music in Berlin, or art in, I don't know, Madrid - all these scenes come and go. Everything leads back to Hollywood.

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  Fashion, Art, New York

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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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  Men, Views, Land

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Where war destroys, art inspires. And in order to inspire, you need to penetrate the brain. In order to penetrate the brain, you need something to react to. To have something to react to, you need to get your emotions up and running. To get your emotions up and running, you need to have something that ... whatever direction you go in, it has to be a movement between you and the experience.

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  Running, Art, War

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• Nowadays, teenagers are so fast and quick to see through any form of manipulation. Sitting down and just thinking of something is like watching really bad pornography.

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  Teenager, Thinking, Manipulation

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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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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  Believe, Roles, Agendas

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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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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  Reality, Play, Would Be

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• The character requires so many elements. The only one who could fulfill that was this one person: Elle Fanning.

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  Character, Elements, Persons

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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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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  Believe, Opening Up, Important Events

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• If the Wizard of Oz were real he would be in Hollywood.

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  Real, Hollywood, Would Be

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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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  Ideas, World, Horror

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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• 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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  Jobs, Way, Mets

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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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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  Ideas, Creative, Way

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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• 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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  Girl, Teenage, Thinking

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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• There will always be a theatrical experience because there will always be cinemas no matter what. It's like there will always be theaters to have stage plays in.

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  Play, Cinema, Matter

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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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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  Important, Neon, Cliffs

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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• [Reanu Reeves] is a very imaginative actor. He can have this wonderful balance of humor and fear. He's got these skills to be entertaining but also quite terrifying.

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  Skills, Balance, Actors

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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• I try not to have too specific notions because it messes up the process later on. I leave it very open to interpretation until I start casting. Everything changes a lot when you start casting. I mean everything.

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  Mean, Trying, Casting

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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• I can't make a film that I don't feel comfortable with.

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  Film, Feels, I Can

  "The GQ&A: Drive Director Nicolas Winding Refn". Interview with Sean Fennessey, www.gq.com. September 12, 2011.

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