My films are like Christmas: you can't wait to open it. — Nicolas Winding Refn Christmas Copy Share Image
[The Neon Demon] was more my own fascination with beauty. It's my children's fascination beauty. — Nicolas Winding Refn Beauty Copy Share Image
I've always felt that I was from the future because the future is really not about what you make but what you… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
The first thing I do when I go to people's houses is look at their television, turn it on. — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
When we met, my agenda was "Get Elle Fanning." I believe Elle's was "Get the role." But we didn't know that. — Nicolas Winding Refn Agendas Copy Share Image
I started making films purely based on what I would like to see. — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
Filmmaking is not about what we see - it's a very misconceived notion; it's about what we don't see. — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
I think the idea was to make a horror film that became a science-fiction film with a lot of melodramatic tropes. — Nicolas Winding Refn Cinema Copy Share Image
I feel Amazon is really bringing films into the future. So for me it was the best of both worlds. — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
I also believe on a practical level, if you're taking time away from people, besides entertaining them, I think it's important that… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
In a way, art is a great way to release your love, fantasy, and desires. It's like a fetish. It's a comfortable… — Nicolas Winding Refn Art Copy Share Image
I don't do drugs, and so music very much gets me going. When I do something, I think, "If it was a… — Nicolas Winding Refn Drug Copy Share Image
I'm glamour. I'm vulgarity. I'm scandal. I'm gossip. I'm the future. I'm the counter culture. I'm commercial reality. I'm artistic singularity. — Nicolas Winding Refn Art Copy Share Image
America has no one to catch you when you fall. That makes you want to achieve. It is healthy for the soul.… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
For me, Amazon has stepped in and presented the future of entertainment. Obviously, the future of entertainment is going to be on… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
I love watching the superhero movies, and I would love to make one. But in a way, 'Drive' is probably the greatest… — Nicolas Winding Refn Comic Copy Share Image
Creativity is about taking what is the norm and expanding it and continuing to expand it and expand it and expand it… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
Financing films that are demanding is a task, in itself. Because people are so afraid of taking any kind of chance, because… — Nicolas Winding Refn Audience Copy Share Image
We live in a society right now which is the last phase of the ecosystem in terms of the old entertainment value,… — Nicolas Winding Refn Beast Copy Share Image
Filmmaking is like any kind of art form. You have to try to figure it out, and you're going to do that… — Nicolas Winding Refn Art Copy Share Image
And to be fair, most documentaries are half an hour too long, anyway. Let's not kid ourselves. Most movies are an hour… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
The casting of any film is around 60% of the film, but it's also about the right casting insight. It's a bit… — Nicolas Winding Refn Actor Copy Share Image
[Liv Corfixen] very much part of my life in that she's everything in my life and we found a way to use… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
I've been making films with almost no dialogue (laughs), so sound and music become a very powerful character to tell the story.… — Nicolas Winding Refn Character Copy Share Image
I am a child of cinema, and I am a cineaste, so everything I do is a reference to something I've heard… — Nicolas Winding Refn Children Copy Share Image
I think 'Videodrome' was an absolute philosophical masterpiece. — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
Art is very much about making your weaknesses your strength. — Nicolas Winding Refn Art Copy Share Image
The act of creation can be an extreme violent experience. — Nicolas Winding Refn Creation Copy Share Image
If the Wizard of Oz were real he would be in Hollywood. — Nicolas Winding Refn Hollywood Copy Share Image