I always think once you have the lead protagonist, you cast around that character. — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
Sometimes I just play the theme from Arthur. It reminds me of my childhood in New York and I just love it. — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
I think that I am a pornographer, meaning that I make movies based on what excites me and what I would like… — Nicolas Winding Refn Film Copy Share Image
The best way to move forward - to bury the past. That doesn't mean you forget it. — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
I always approach every film I make as if it was going to be the last. So if I'm going to go… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
I'm a fetishist. I make films based on what I would like to see. — Nicolas Winding Refn Cinema Copy Share Image
I think that Danish people may be thought off as the happiest people, but honestly...I love America. — Nicolas Winding Refn America Copy Share Image
Cinema is mass media, it is both overtly gross and exciting. It is our great mirror of society. — Nicolas Winding Refn Cinema Copy Share Image
The digital revolution is forever. They put importance on that option as well. With Amazon, you're getting the best of both worlds,… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
For 'Drive,' we needed the songs to dictate emotions and really bring you into the mind of The Driver; he's a unique… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
I can do my part of the storytelling. I can carry it. I can paint it. I can maneuver it. I can… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
If you create something that is essentially alien to you - as a man - and make a film about woman, the… — Nicolas Winding Refn Aliens Copy Share Image
You must understand that violence in a movie is only a tool. If it's used badly, it will be horrible. If it's… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
Only God Forgives was very much a generation gap in a way. It was all the youth of the world that embraced… — Nicolas Winding Refn Film Copy Share Image
I am not a fan of improvisation, because it bores me. Working off a tight scenario gives you the confidence and ability… — Nicolas Winding Refn Ability Copy Share Image
I think that, again, filmmaking is the director's medium in the end, and the best thing a producer can do is stay… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
There will always be a theatrical experience because there will always be cinemas no matter what. It's like there will always be… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
I was in Hollywood. It's the mythology heart. It's where all the European films came in the '30s and '40s. The marriage… — Nicolas Winding Refn Cinema Copy Share Image
I very much enjoy my freedom creatively but I also would love to make one of those big Hollywood films that costs… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
Beauty is on one level pure surface, and on the other hand, it's the most complex subject that we can touch upon… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
I've always worked a lot with silence in my films. It forces the audience to concentrate on what they're seeing, because silence… — Nicolas Winding Refn Emotions Copy Share Image
I think when you make a movie, one of your main focuses as a director is to inspire everyone else to give… — Nicolas Winding Refn Cinema Copy Share Image
In the end, self-indulgence is very much about your ego and your vanity and your own id. The more you can indulge… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
I've been trying to get away from physical violence; it's too easy; it doesn't satisfy me artistically to work with it. Dramatic… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
I think that's the struggle of our normality is that we have oppressed desires because of what is accepted and not accepted… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
Hollywood is Hollywood. It'll never change, although it does go through its own transformations. I think that there's this obsessiveness with making… — Nicolas Winding Refn Change Copy Share Image
If an actor or actress is recognizable, that changes our perception of them. Sometimes you can play against type, or you can… — Nicolas Winding Refn Actor Copy Share Image
The minute you celebrate narcissism, which on one hand is very complex, it's very ridiculous. You have to love oneself with humor. — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
[Reanu Reeves] is a very imaginative actor. He can have this wonderful balance of humor and fear. He's got these skills to… — Nicolas Winding Refn Actor Copy Share Image
The vibe, it's that excitement. New York, you just can't describe it. You get a similar thing from Paris and London, but… — Nicolas Winding Refn Excitement Copy Share Image
Elle Fanning was fifteen when we started [The Neon Demon]. She turned seventeen during the shoot. Four weeks before Cannes, she turned… — Nicolas Winding Refn Cannes Copy Share Image
I'm a huge John Hughes fan, and I grew up in the '80s, when his films came out. So, my introduction to… — Nicolas Winding Refn Cinema Copy Share Image
To me, the darkest film ever made and the film, to me, that's the darkest picture in the human humanity's soul is… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
I always, as a firm rule, make my movies based on how inexpensively I can make them because that means the more… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
I very much love Los Angeles, and I love working here. I find it very inspiring and very creative, and some of… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
L.A. is, on one hand, very mysterious; it's very modern. It's a mysterious place - it's a haunting place - and everything… — Nicolas Winding Refn Around the world Copy Share Image
I know how terrifying L.A. can be, because I've been there as a failure. After 'Drive,' it was the most marvellous place… — Nicolas Winding Refn Drive Copy Share Image
L.A. films are hard to define compared to New York films because New York films are their own subgenre, in a way.… — Nicolas Winding Refn Cinema Copy Share Image
We have basic urges all the time. They just manifest themselves in different scenarios, and we have to turn those weaknesses into… — Nicolas Winding Refn Art Copy Share Image
In "Drive," there's a heightened male edge. In "Only God Forgives," it was almost crawling back into the womb of the mother.… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
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