I'm not the greatest filmmaker. There are a lot of better filmmakers than me. — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
I would love to make a kids' movie. But they are very hard to make. — 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
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
As long as your movies don't lose money, you'll always be able to make them. — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
Polarizing is the greatest achievement in any art form, even in cinema. — 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
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 the idea was to make a horror film that became a science-fiction film with a lot of melodramatic tropes. — 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
I woke up one day and I realized I wasn't born beautiful, but my wife was, so I decided to make a… — 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 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
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 most creative phase of a film is in shooting, because structure is the defining element of that phase. — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
Actually, there was one sequence but Liv didn't put this in but at the end of the movie, we ran out of… — 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
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
You ask actors what they would like to do, and you constantly keep them engaged. You want their engagement, input, and sensibilities.… — 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
If you create something that is essentially alien to you - as a man - and make a film about woman, the… — 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
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 best thing you can do with actors is collaborate with them. My job is to inspire them to give their best.… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
I never look at the internet because then you just have nothing else to do but just look. Most generally, and even… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
Jenna Malone was a very important piece of how the film [The Neon Demon] turned out. — 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
Cinema is mass media, it is both overtly gross and exciting. It is our great mirror of society. — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
Only God Forgives was very much a generation gap in a way. It was all the youth of the world that embraced… — 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
'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
Everything we do is about the emotion of the characters. We believe the better the emotion, the better the movie. — 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
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
![“I just think it was time [in THe Neon Demon]to do a film about women. But not just women, I wanted to do a movie about a teenage girl. It was a great counter to the masculinity of "Drive."” quote by Nicolas Winding Refn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/702/nicolas-winding-refn-1480_cinema_i-just-think-it-was-time-in-the-neon-dem_2048263.jpg)
![“The first person I ever described the film [The Neon Demon] to was Christina Hendricks [who has a cameo in the movie]. We were having dinner in LA and she asked me what I wanted to do next and I said, "I want to do a horror movie." And she goes, "What's it going to be about?" And I said, "A lot of…” quote by Nicolas Winding Refn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/058/nicolas-winding-refn-1480_blood_the-first-person-i-ever-described-the-fi_864485.jpg)
![“Jenna Malone was a very important piece of how the film [The Neon Demon] turned out.” quote by Nicolas Winding Refn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/57a/nicolas-winding-refn-1480_demon_jenna-malone-was-a-very-important-piece_2992848.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)
