This after what the "Drive" director says, in what may or may not be a classic bit of Refn deadpan exaggeration, he "christened me his spiritual son, where he rubbed my head and did all these magical things".
Money is like that and films are like that". He was philosophical in circumstances that would have driven other directors to distraction.
The two most driven art directors I ever worked with and I worked with scores were both women.
That means the entire company is driven by directors - the artists - not by corporate executives in management with MBA's or financial models or a development department.
In stark contrast, the Rubicon-Laguna Playhouse production is driven by director Katharine Farmer's overarching interpretation that Alex and Georgie's respective anomalies and imperfect socialization place them clearly on the autism spectrum.
The financial industry groups again argue that such a standard will drive away directors and officers as well as make it harder to recruit these people.
Details that would drive most directors crazy — shadows thrown on actors' faces, for example — didn't appear to concern him, as long as he got the shot.
Read more 9.38am BST Day eight at Cannes, and today's big talking point is, without a doubt, Only God Forgives, reuniting Drive director Nicholas Winding Refn with Ryan Gosling.
Several films expected to have a big presence when Oscars season comes around will premiere at Cannes, including Ryan Gosling's second collaboration with Drive director Nicolas Winding Refn, the Bangkok noir Only God Forgives, which promises to be one of the most thrillingly violent films at the festival.
But the calm, even vacant acting style that won him global fame in The Matrix still has its fans – including Drive director Nicolas Winding Refn, who has cast him as one of the leads in his new film The Neon Demon, currently in production.
