'Neon Demon' Director Nicolas Winding Refn on Bringing His Personal Fantasy to Life (Video)TheWrap

“The Neon Demon” director Nicolas Winding Refn says his films are just his fantasies brought to life, including his latest film about a 16-year-old model, played by Elle Fanning.

“I think I’ve gotten that out of me so now I can move on with my life,” Refn said of his inner 16-year-old girl in an interview with TheWrap’s Stuart Brazell.

“But all my films are just essentially fantasies of what I would like to maybe have been, or what I would like to have tried, or what I would like to have done. And that’s what’s great about creativity.”

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Watch the interview above.

36 Movies That Have Grossed $1 Billion Worldwide (Photos)

Billion-dollar movies aren't as rare as they used to be. Still, there aren't that many of them. See them all here:
Disney/Marvel/Lucasfilm/20th Century Fox
"Incredibles 2" -- $1.00 billion and counting (Disney-Pixar, 2018)
"The Dark Knight" -- $1.00 billion (Warner Bros., 2008)
Warner Bros.
"Finding Dory" -- $1.02 billion (Disney-Pixar, 2016)

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Disney-Pixar
"The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" -- $1.02 billion (Warner Bros., 2012)
Warner Bros./New Line
"Zootopia" -- $1.02 billion (Disney, 2016)

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Disney Animation Studios
"Alice in Wonderland" -- $1.03 billion (Disney, 2010)
Disney
"Despicable Me 3" -- $1.03 billion (Universal, 2017)
"Star Wars: Episode I -- The Phantom Menace" -- $1.03 billion (20th Century Fox)
Fox/Lucasfilm
"Jurassic Park" -- $1.03 billion (Universal, 1993)
Universal
"Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides" -- $1.05 billion (Disney, 2011)
Disney
"Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" -- $1.05 billion (Disney/Lucasfilm, 2016)
Disney
"Toy Story 3" -- $1.06 billion (Disney, 2010)
Disney/Pixar
"Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" -- $1.07 billion (Disney, 2006)
Disney
"The Dark Knight Rises" -- $1.08 billion (Warner Bros., 2012)
Warner Bros.
"Transformers: Age of Extinction" -- $1.10 billion (Paramount, 2014)
Paramount
"Skyfall" -- $1.11 billion (Sony, 2012)

Sony
"Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" -- $1.12 billion (New Line, 2003)
New Line
"Transformers: Dark of the Moon" -- $1.12 billion (Paramount, 2011)
Paramount
"Captain America: Civil War" -- $1.15 billion (Disney, 2016)
Disney
"Minions" -- $1.16 billion (Universal, 2015)
Universal
"Iron Man 3" -- $1.22 billion (Disney, 2013)
Disney/Marvel
"Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom" -- $1.23 billion (Universal, 2018)
"Beauty and the Beast" -- $1.26 billion (Disney, 2017)
"The Fate of the Furious" -- $1.26 billion (Universal, 2017)

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"Frozen" -- $1.28 billion (Disney, 2013)

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Walt Disney Animation
"Star Wars: The Last Jedi" -- $1.33 billion (Disney/Lucasfilm, 2017)
"Black Panther" -- $1.33 billion (Disney/Marvel Studios, 2018)
"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2" -- $1.34 billion (Warner Bros., 2011)
Warner Bros.
"Avengers: Age of Ultron" -- $1.41 billion (Disney/Marvel Studios, 2015)
Disney/Marvel
"Furious 7" -- $1.52 billion (Universal, 2015)
Universal
"Marvel's The Avengers" -- $1.52 billion (Disney/Marvel Studios, 2012)
Disney/Marvel
"Jurassic World" -- $1.67 billion (Universal, 2015)
Universal
"Avengers: Infinity War" -- $2.04 billion (Disney/Marvel Studios, 2018)
"Star Wars: The Force Awakens" -- $2.07 billion (Disney, 2015)
Disney/Lucasfilm
"Titanic" -- $2.19 billion (Paramount, 1997)
Paramount
"Avatar" -- $2.79 billion (20th Century Fox, 2009)

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20th Century Fox