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 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 Copy Share Image
I like doing the promotional work. It's part of the film's process. Cannes was very wonderful to premiere. — Nicolas Winding Refn 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 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 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
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 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 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
[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
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
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
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
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 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
![“[Liv Corfixen] very much part of my life in that she's everything in my life and we found a way to use each other much more on a creative level as well. She was kind of the idea for this movie so I wanted to acknowledge that. She gave me the original idea to make the film.” quote by Nicolas Winding Refn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/217/nicolas-winding-refn-1480_acknowledge_liv-corfixen-very-much-part-of-my-life-i_1465852.jpg)
![“Elle Fanning was fifteen when we started [The Neon Demon]. She turned seventeen during the shoot. Four weeks before Cannes, she turned eighteen. She had her prom at Cannes.” quote by Nicolas Winding Refn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/863/nicolas-winding-refn-1480_cannes_elle-fanning-was-fifteen-when-we-started_94502.jpg)
