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 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
The problem with cinema nowadays is that it's a math problem. People can read a film mathematically; they know when this comes… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
'Valhalla Rising' is a fusion of my upbringing, basically: everything I grew up loving and wanted to make a film of. — Nicolas Winding Refn 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 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 Copy Share Image
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 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 Copy Share Image
Polarizing is the greatest achievement in any art form, even in cinema. — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
I started making films purely based on what I would like to see. — Nicolas Winding Refn 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
My writing has always been more out of the need to write a movie rather than me being a good writer. — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
Film works when a director and a star have a connection. You know, when there's something telekinetic between them, there's a partnership,… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
Doing your first film, it's very important that it's a commercial success, because that gives you a couple times to experiment until… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
Cinema is mass media, it is both overtly gross and exciting. It is our great mirror of society. — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
My initial idea was I wanted to make it a horror film, very much. At times I do enter that world. — Nicolas Winding Refn 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 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 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
A good director is not an expert in anything in particular. A good director just knows a little bit about everything. — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
I'm not a walking encyclopedia. I'm not one of those types that knows every single film ever made or can recite every… — 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 in our… — Nicolas Winding Refn 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, with a… — Nicolas Winding Refn 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 stand for. — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
Art thrives on obstacles. The bigger the obstacle, the better the drama. — Nicolas Winding Refn 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 eighteen. She… — 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 like a… — Nicolas Winding Refn 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 individual experience.… — 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 out, I'm… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
I'm a huge admirer of Keanu. I think he's absolutely extraordinary. — 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