I also believe on a practical level, if you're taking time away from people, besides entertaining them, I … - Nicolas Winding Refn

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Out there, in the world, all the walls were covered with graffiti: Yids, go back to Palestine, so we came back to Palestine, and now the worldatlarge shouts at us: Yids, get out of Palestine.

Nicolas 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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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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Creativity is narcissism. Creativity is falling in love with one's self as you create. It's self-indulgent.

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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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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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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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