If the Wizard of Oz were real he would be in Hollywood. — Nicolas Winding Refn Hollywood Copy Share Image
The act of creation can be an extreme violent experience. — Nicolas Winding Refn Creation Copy Share Image
The best way to move forward - to bury the past. That doesn't mean you forget it. — Nicolas Winding Refn Best Copy Share Image
I think that I am a pornographer, meaning that I make movies based on what excites me and what I would like… — Nicolas Winding Refn Film 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 Arthur Copy Share Image
I'm a fetishist. I make films based on what I would like to see. — Nicolas Winding Refn Cinema 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… — Nicolas Winding Refn Always Copy Share Image
I always think once you have the lead protagonist, you cast around that character. — Nicolas Winding Refn Cast 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 Another Copy Share Image
I find beauty very frightening because it's such an all consuming subject in our society. — Nicolas Winding Refn Beauty Copy Share Image
I've never really been on a date, because I've been with the same girl since my early twenties, but on our first… — Nicolas Winding Refn Chains Copy Share Image
The more we become civilized, the more we simultaneously understand our need to be virtuous and our need to understand our experiences… — Nicolas Winding Refn Civilized Copy Share Image
I'm a fetish filmmaker, in that I don't know why I do what I do, I just like to see things. When… — Nicolas Winding Refn Cinema Copy Share Image
I believe shooting chronologically gives you a very fresh perspective and you're always aware of where you are in the development of… — Nicolas Winding Refn Believe Copy Share Image
Financially, it was very successful. Which is the most important thing. That is the only way you get to make another movie.… — Nicolas Winding Refn Film 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… — Nicolas Winding Refn Arrogant Copy Share Image
We live in a beauty-obsessed culture, which on one hand is absolutely fabulous, but on the flip side, is also dangerously extreme. — Nicolas Winding Refn Absolutely fabulous 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 Dominating Copy Share Image
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 Alfred hitchcock 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 Can do Copy Share Image
All my other movies have the same process. Same approach. Same amount of changes. Everything. Things being made up on the fly.… — Nicolas Winding Refn Amount 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 Actors 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 Art Copy Share Image
Amazon, being a provider - not just on the playing field - is, of course, opening up a whole new set of… — Nicolas Winding Refn Amazon Copy Share Image
[Liv Corfixen] very much part of my life in that she's everything in my life and we found a way to use… — Nicolas Winding Refn Acknowledge 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 Actor Copy Share Image