My films are like Christmas: you can't wait to open it. — Nicolas Winding Refn Christmas Copy Share Image
Art is very much about making your weaknesses your strength. — Nicolas Winding Refn Art Copy Share Image
I think 'Videodrome' was an absolute philosophical masterpiece. — Nicolas Winding Refn Absolute Copy Share Image
Reaction is what changes your understanding of the world. — Nicolas Winding Refn Learning Copy Share Image
I think that every man has a 16-year-old girl inside of him. — Nicolas Winding Refn Every man Copy Share Image
The future is not about what you do, it's about what you stand for. — Nicolas Winding Refn Future Copy Share Image
I'm a huge admirer of Keanu. I think he's absolutely extraordinary. — Nicolas Winding Refn Extraordinary Copy Share Image
Man's fear of sexuality is the basis of all horror from the male perspective. — Nicolas Winding Refn Bases Copy Share Image
Narcissism as a virtue is very futuristic. Narcissism as a quality is where I think things are heading. — Nicolas Winding Refn Futuristic Copy Share Image
I'm not a walking encyclopedia. I'm not one of those types that knows every single film ever made or can recite every… — Nicolas Winding Refn Cinema Copy Share Image
I love watching the superhero movies and I would love to make one. — Nicolas Winding Refn Cinema Copy Share Image
A good director is not an expert in anything in particular. A good director just knows a little bit about everything. — Nicolas Winding Refn Cinema Copy Share Image
I think that Danish people may be thought off as the happiest people, but honestly...I love America. — Nicolas Winding Refn America Copy Share Image
Like all art forms, film is a media as powerful as weapons of mass destruction; the only difference is that war destroys… — Nicolas Winding Refn Art Copy Share Image
I base everything on my instinctual approach. There's something very satisfying in that creativity, and it's a bit like an infant drawing. — Nicolas Winding Refn Artist Copy Share Image
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 Always Copy Share Image
I never desired to really go to Hollywood and make films, and purely because I want my entire control, which I'm used… — Nicolas Winding Refn Cinema Copy Share Image
The greatest artists were in a situation where they had to pay their bills. That's a very convenient way to get very… — Nicolas Winding Refn Art Copy Share Image
The 'Neon Demon' is very much designed to be like a YouTube movie. It's designed to be chopped up. You can cut… — Nicolas Winding Refn Eight Copy Share Image
There's incredible effect in being either loved or hated, but knowing that, either way, you have penetrated the mind and have altered… — Nicolas Winding Refn Altered 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 Believe 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 Actor Copy Share Image
I mean, what do you think creativity is? Nothing but self-indulgence. And the more self-indulgent it is, the more interesting it becomes.… — Nicolas Winding Refn Accepting Copy Share Image
Where war destroys, art inspires. And in order to inspire, you need to penetrate the brain. In order to penetrate the brain,… — Nicolas Winding Refn Art Copy Share Image
I am a child of cinema, and I am a cineaste, so everything I do is a reference to something I've heard… — Nicolas Winding Refn Children Copy Share Image
I've been making films with almost no dialogue (laughs), so sound and music become a very powerful character to tell the story.… — Nicolas Winding Refn Character Copy Share Image
We live in a world where art is always looked upon as the perfect medium. We live in a society where we… — Nicolas Winding Refn Art Copy Share Image
In the end, we're just showmen. But, I think that it's an important factor. Not to be anything else but clear about… — Nicolas Winding Refn Art 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 Art Copy Share Image
I think the Internet is the greatest invention since women. — Nicolas Winding Refn I think Copy Share Image
I like the early comic book characters more than the new ones. — Nicolas Winding Refn Book Copy Share Image
I can't make a film that I don't feel comfortable with. — Nicolas Winding Refn Cinema Copy Share Image
I'm calculated in other things, but not in what I make. — Nicolas Winding Refn Calculated Copy Share Image
I just close my eyes and I fantasize what I would like to see. — Nicolas Winding Refn Eye Copy Share Image
