I've been trying to get away from physical violence; it's too easy; it doesn't satisfy me artistically to work with it. Dramatic… — Nicolas Winding Refn Difficult Copy Share Image
Ironically, even the fashion in New York or Paris or Milan or whatever, or music in Berlin, or art in, I don't… — Nicolas Winding Refn Art Copy Share Image
I think that television has become really, really interesting, in terms of character development. You can have 13 hours to develop a… — Nicolas Winding Refn Character Copy Share Image
I think that art is an act of violence, and the more emotionally engaged you are in a piece of art, the… — Nicolas Winding Refn Art Copy Share Image
Art is very much about making your weaknesses your strength. — Nicolas Winding Refn Art 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
Creativity is about taking what is the norm and expanding it and continuing to expand it and expand it and expand it… — Nicolas Winding Refn About Copy Share Image
I'm glamour. I'm vulgarity. I'm scandal. I'm gossip. I'm the future. I'm the counter culture. I'm commercial reality. I'm artistic singularity. — Nicolas Winding Refn Art Copy Share Image
When I was 12 or 13, I started going to the cinema myself. — Nicolas Winding Refn Cinema Copy Share Image
I've always worked a lot with silence in my films. It forces the audience to concentrate on what they're seeing, because silence… — Nicolas Winding Refn Emotions Copy Share Image
Reaction is what changes your understanding of the world. — Nicolas Winding Refn Learning 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 Feels Copy Share Image
Personally I kept my feelings out of it and created a fantasy. That's the process of going through this world being beautiful. — Nicolas Winding Refn Beautiful Copy Share Image
I would love to make a kids' movie. But they are very hard to make. — Nicolas Winding Refn Hard 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 Cinema Copy Share Image
I remember To Live And Die In L.A. I saw that in the cinemas when I was young in the '80s. I… — Nicolas Winding Refn Live and die 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 Film 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 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 Believe Copy Share Image
The artificial world that we create through images will essentially become real. — Nicolas Winding Refn Artificial 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
