Nicolas Winding Refn

I'd love to do a yakuza movie.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

Creativity is about a reaction.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

I like extremes.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

I like all kinds of film.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

My world is just one big chaos!

— Nicolas Winding Refn

I love to look at beauty.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

I'm not a political filmmaker.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

I'm calculated in other things, but not in what I make.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

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

— Nicolas Winding Refn

I like the early comic book characters more than the new ones.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

You cannot go through life without cause and effect.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

When I was 12 or 13, I started going to the cinema myself.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

People react to 'Drive' in a way that is very primal.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

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

— Nicolas Winding Refn

Reaction is what changes your understanding of the world.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

Art thrives on obstacles. The bigger the obstacle, the better the drama.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

The idea of narcissism, essentially, is and will be accepted as a virtue.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

If an actor or actress is recognizable, that changes our perception of them.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

I always say I have a Danish passport, but I am a New Yorker at heart.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

I believe that the constant possibility of failure or possibility of decision-making feeds your creativity.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

'Bronson' was like, 'I'll do a movie about my own life.' And it became like an experiment.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

I would love to make a kids' movie. But they are very hard to make.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

I'm not the greatest filmmaker. There are a lot of better filmmakers than me.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

I started buying films a couple of years ago. The first film-maker I began to obsessively collect was Andy Milligan. He was…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

People very quickly define success due to the amount of money something makes. In the end, I think everyone is searching for…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

That's half of what we do our daily lives - we react to our surroundings. Of course, we have to make it…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

Beauty is like a new class system. The world is so obsessed with beauty; it has been for the last 2,000 years.…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

The power of art is as powerful as weapons of mass destruction; it's just where war destroys, art inspires. But in order…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

I was very affected as a foreigner coming from Copenhagen, which is the safest, most liberal town in the entire galaxy. I…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

It's hard to always challenge yourself, coming up with new ways to make your life difficult, so when you make something, it…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

There are wonderful artists who deal in the fashion world only, and you see by their creations that they are changing our…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

Actually, there was one sequence but Liv didn't put this in but at the end of the movie, we ran out of…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

The Oriental approach to violence is a much more aesthetic and poetic approach, whereas in the western world, violence is put in…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

I love to be on location. I love to be in other parts of the world. I love to be where I'm…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

I love fear, and fear breeds creativity. It forces you to react instinctively, which is the essence of movement. Movement is a…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

I've stopped showing actors what to actually do. I rather just talk to them about it. Then I usually play music. That's…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

The first person I ever described the film [The Neon Demon] to was Christina Hendricks [who has a cameo in the movie].…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

Every film that you make has to have a scene that is the heart that blood flows through in every other scene.…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

You ask actors what they would like to do, and you constantly keep them engaged. You want their engagement, input, and sensibilities.…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

I like to take things as they come.

— Nicolas Winding Refn