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
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
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 fetishist. I make films based on what I would like to see. — Nicolas Winding Refn 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 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 Copy Share Image
I just think it was time [in THe Neon Demon]to do a film about women. But not just women, I wanted to… — 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 Copy Share Image
I started buying films a couple of years ago. The first film-maker I began to obsessively collect was Andy Milligan. He was… — Nicolas Winding Refn 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
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
The Oriental approach to violence is a much more aesthetic and poetic approach, whereas in the western world, violence is put in… — 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
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
I grew up in the '80s and John Hughes was the filmmaker making serious movies for teenagers. — 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 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 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
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 Copy Share Image
I love watching the superhero movies and I would love to make one. — Nicolas Winding Refn 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
Every film that you make has to have a scene that is the heart that blood flows through in every other scene.… — 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 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