Writing is fantasizing about what your film will be like. Shooting is reality. And the post-production is recovering the idea you had. — Nicolas Winding Refn Cinema Copy Share Image
My movie [The Neon Demon] is a hyper-version of the obsession with beauty. As this crazy obsession grows, longevity does not. Everything… — Nicolas Winding Refn Beauty Copy Share Image
The kind of group mentality that we had lived under since the Second World War is starting to erupt, and the craving… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
Art has the power to influence and to make you react to something that you normally wouldn't concern, worry, or even think… — Nicolas Winding Refn Art Copy Share Image
I love rock ballads, and I'm kind of in emotional turmoil, being ill and high, so I start to sing to the… — Nicolas Winding Refn Ballads Copy Share Image
I think you have to be so indulgent in creativity in that, if you're happy, it's successful. If it's then financially successful,… — Nicolas Winding Refn Creativity Copy Share Image
I don't really make films in Denmark. 'Bronson' was shot in Rottingham, 'Valhalla Rising' was made in Glasgow, and 'Drive' was made… — Nicolas Winding Refn Cinema Copy Share Image
My mother and stepfather were documentary filmmakers and, of course, had a very healthy Scandinavian mentality. When it came to cinema, my… — Nicolas Winding Refn Cinema Copy Share Image
I've been lucky to have a beautiful wife and children. The idea that something so beautiful can be so horrific at the… — Nicolas Winding Refn Beautiful Copy Share Image
Ironically, even the fashion in New York or Paris or Milan or whatever, or music in Berlin, or art in, I don't… — Nicolas Winding Refn Art Copy Share Image
I had met Keanu [Reeves]a few times so it was a great way to reach out to him with an actual job… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
It was a very comfortable and personal relationship [Cliff Martinez ].'The Neon Demon'is our third movie and the music has never been… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
Denmark is like a Sylvanian world, but one thing it breeds is malady. The malady is generally in good taste. Opinions are… — Nicolas Winding Refn Creativity Copy Share Image
I don't know if power seduces less or more. I think power is a constant evolving mechanism that, since the dawn of… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
The only thing that would really make my mother angry would be if I liked horror movies or violence or Ronald Reagan.… — Nicolas Winding Refn Horror movies Copy Share Image
I love films, I love movies, I love television, I love television series, I love the internet, I love anything that enhances… — Nicolas Winding Refn Cinema Copy Share Image
We live in a time where it's very much in vogue, constant search for pure utopian equality, and which, on one level,… — Nicolas Winding Refn Equality Copy Share Image
Nowadays, teenagers are so fast and quick to see through any form of manipulation. Sitting down and just thinking of something is… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
Financially, it was very successful. Which is the most important thing. That is the only way you get to make another movie.… — Nicolas Winding Refn Film Copy Share Image
Like all art forms, film is a media as powerful as weapons of mass destruction; the only difference is that war destroys… — Nicolas Winding Refn Art Copy Share Image
I think the idea of individualism has become more dominating in our society. You can even see it by our political system:… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
We live in a beauty-obsessed culture, which on one hand is absolutely fabulous, but on the flip side, is also dangerously extreme. — Nicolas Winding Refn Absolutely fabulous Copy Share Image
How can creativity be bad? You can have, "I liked it" or "I didn't like it," but, in the end, it's an… — Nicolas Winding Refn Arrogant Copy Share Image
I believe shooting chronologically gives you a very fresh perspective and you're always aware of where you are in the development of… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
I'm a fetish filmmaker, in that I don't know why I do what I do, I just like to see things. When… — Nicolas Winding Refn Cinema Copy Share Image
The more we become civilized, the more we simultaneously understand our need to be virtuous and our need to understand our experiences… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
I've never really been on a date, because I've been with the same girl since my early twenties, but on our first… — Nicolas Winding Refn Chains Copy Share Image
I remember To Live And Die In L.A. I saw that in the cinemas when I was young in the '80s. I… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
I certainly believe that creativity must be an experience. If I'm to steal time away from people, we should give them something… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
I don't believe that art makes people violent in any way. I don't. But I do believe art can show people how… — Nicolas Winding Refn Art Copy Share Image
When I was 20 years old, my uncle was an arthouse distributor, and he would take me to Cannes every year to… — Nicolas Winding Refn Cinema Copy Share Image
There's incredible effect in being either loved or hated, but knowing that, either way, you have penetrated the mind and have altered… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
I base everything on my instinctual approach. There's something very satisfying in that creativity, and it's a bit like an infant drawing. — Nicolas Winding Refn Artist Copy Share Image
The 'Neon Demon' is very much designed to be like a YouTube movie. It's designed to be chopped up. You can cut… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
The greatest artists were in a situation where they had to pay their bills. That's a very convenient way to get very… — Nicolas Winding Refn Art Copy Share Image
I never desired to really go to Hollywood and make films, and purely because I want my entire control, which I'm used… — Nicolas Winding Refn Cinema Copy Share Image
A lot of the surreal filmmakers, like David Lynch, Alejandro Jodorowsky, or countless other underground filmmakers... Their sense of explosive images have… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
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![“It was a very comfortable and personal relationship [Cliff Martinez ].'The Neon Demon'is our third movie and the music has never been as important as for this movie.” quote by Nicolas Winding Refn](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/fbb/nicolas-winding-refn-1480_cliffs_it-was-a-very-comfortable-and-personal-r_1403206.jpg)
