A Quote by Nicolas Winding Refn
I'm calculated in other things, but not in what I make.
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We had a couple of films that, in the course of working on them, the budget shrank to the point where we couldn't make it. They literally ran the numbers: They took our numbers and the stars' numbers, and when they calculated whether we could make our money back or not, it said no.
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