Cinema Quotes by Nicolas Winding Refn

I like all kinds of film.

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I'd love to do a yakuza movie.

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I wanted to make a horror film about beauty.

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All my films represent my own needs and wants.

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Polarizing is the greatest achievement in any art form, even in cinema.

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My initial idea was I wanted to make it a horror film, very much. At times I do enter that world.

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When I was 12 or 13, I started going to the cinema myself.

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I started making films purely based on what I would like to see.

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I feel Amazon is really bringing films into the future. So for me it was the best of both worlds.

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I can't make a film that I don't feel comfortable with.

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Cinema is mass media, it is both overtly gross and exciting. It is our great mirror of society.

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I love watching the superhero movies and I would love to make one.

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There will always be a theatrical experience because there will always be cinemas no matter what. It's like there will always be…

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The most creative phase of a film is in shooting, because structure is the defining element of that phase.

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Filmmaking is like any kind of art form. You have to try to figure it out, and you're going to do that…

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I was in Hollywood. It's the mythology heart. It's where all the European films came in the '30s and '40s. The marriage…

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I think that, again, filmmaking is the director's medium in the end, and the best thing a producer can do is stay…

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'Valhalla Rising' is a fusion of my upbringing, basically: everything I grew up loving and wanted to make a film of.

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I think when you make a movie, one of your main focuses as a director is to inspire everyone else to give…

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Doing your first film, it's very important that it's a commercial success, because that gives you a couple times to experiment until…

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I very much enjoy my freedom creatively but I also would love to make one of those big Hollywood films that costs…

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Financing films that are demanding is a task, in itself. Because people are so afraid of taking any kind of chance, because…

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The first person I ever described the film [The Neon Demon] to was Christina Hendricks [who has a cameo in the movie].…

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Every film that you make has to have a scene that is the heart that blood flows through in every other scene.…

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The Oriental approach to violence is a much more aesthetic and poetic approach, whereas in the western world, violence is put in…

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A lot of the surreal filmmakers, like David Lynch, Alejandro Jodorowsky, or countless other underground filmmakers... Their sense of explosive images have…

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The problem with cinema nowadays is that it's a math problem. People can read a film mathematically; they know when this comes…

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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

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

I'm a fetishist. I make films based on what I would like to see.

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I grew up in the '80s and John Hughes was the filmmaker making serious movies for teenagers.

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My films are like Christmas: you can't wait to open it.

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I just think it was time [in THe Neon Demon]to do a film about women. But not just women, I wanted to…

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My writing has always been more out of the need to write a movie rather than me being a good writer.

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Filmmaking is not about what we see - it's a very misconceived notion; it's about what we don't see.

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I think the idea was to make a horror film that became a science-fiction film with a lot of melodramatic tropes.

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I started buying films a couple of years ago. The first film-maker I began to obsessively collect was Andy Milligan. He was…

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When I was 20 years old, my uncle was an arthouse distributor, and he would take me to Cannes every year to…

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I never desired to really go to Hollywood and make films, and purely because I want my entire control, which I'm used…

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A good director is not an expert in anything in particular. A good director just knows a little bit about everything.

— Nicolas Winding Refn