Film Quotes by Nicolas Winding Refn

I like all kinds of film.

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I wanted to make a horror film about beauty.

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I'm not a political filmmaker.

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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.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

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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As long as your movies don't lose money, you'll always be able to make them.

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

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I'm not the greatest filmmaker. There are a lot of better filmmakers than me.

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I would love to make a kids' movie. But they are very hard to make.

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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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Only God Forgives was very much a generation gap in a way. It was all the youth of the world that embraced…

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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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Everything we do is about the emotion of the characters. We believe the better the emotion, the better the movie.

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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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If you create something that is essentially alien to you - as a man - and make a film about woman, the…

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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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You ask actors what they would like to do, and you constantly keep them engaged. You want their engagement, input, and sensibilities.…

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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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Actually, there was one sequence but Liv didn't put this in but at the end of the movie, we ran out of…

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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…

— 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

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

I never look at the internet because then you just have nothing else to do but just look. Most generally, and even…

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

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Jenna Malone was a very important piece of how the film [The Neon Demon] turned out.

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

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I woke up one day and I realized I wasn't born beautiful, but my wife was, so I decided to make a…

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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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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…

— Nicolas Winding Refn