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
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
I feel that silence is the greatest word, ever. When you don't talk, people begin to read things into you or you… — 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 also believe on a practical level, if you're taking time away from people, besides entertaining them, I think it's important that… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
I'm not a knowledgeable comic fanatic, as a lot of other people are. — 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
People very quickly define success due to the amount of money something makes. In the end, I think everyone is searching for… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
My movie [The Neon Demon] is a hyper-version of the obsession with beauty. As this crazy obsession grows, longevity does not. Everything… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
I think that Danish people may be thought off as the happiest people, but honestly...I love America. — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
People have called me everything. Every word in the dictionary I've been called at one point or another. — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
Beauty is on one level pure surface, and on the other hand, it's the most complex subject that we can touch upon… — 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
People need to express themselves. The more you do that, the better a person you become. — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
I certainly believe that creativity must be an experience. If I'm to steal time away from people, we should give them something… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
Coming to Hollywood, you always hear the horror stories, but I had good people around me who maybe didn't understand what I… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
The first thing I do when I go to people's houses is look at their television, turn it on. — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
I don't believe that art makes people violent in any way. I don't. But I do believe art can show people how… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
I think the idea of individualism has become more dominating in our society. You can even see it by our political system:… — 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
It's the hardest thing for an actor not to speak because you take away their main tool. So for an actor, it's… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
With 'Only God Forgives,' what's great about that movie is it just freaked so many people out. — 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