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
The first person I ever described the film [The Neon Demon] to was Christina Hendricks [who has a cameo in the movie].… — Nicolas Winding Refn Blood 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 love to be on location. I love to be in other parts of the world. I love to be where I'm… — Nicolas Winding Refn Design Copy Share Image
Polarizing is the greatest achievement in any art form, even in cinema. — Nicolas Winding Refn Achievement Copy Share Image
I'm not a knowledgeable comic fanatic, as a lot of other people are. — Nicolas Winding Refn Comic Copy Share Image
I can do my part of the storytelling. I can carry it. I can paint it. I can maneuver it. I can… — Nicolas Winding Refn Can do 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
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 Creative Copy Share Image
I started making films purely based on what I would like to see. — Nicolas Winding Refn Based 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
My writing has always been more out of the need to write a movie rather than me being a good writer. — Nicolas Winding Refn Always 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
Doing your first film, it's very important that it's a commercial success, because that gives you a couple times to experiment until… — Nicolas Winding Refn Cinema Copy Share Image
Whenever I make a movie, I always try to figure out what kind of music it would be. — Nicolas Winding Refn Always Copy Share Image
I'm a very funny man, so funny comes natural. And if you want to create horror, you need to be funny or… — Nicolas Winding Refn Create Copy Share Image
That's half of what we do our daily lives - we react to our surroundings. Of course, we have to make it… — Nicolas Winding Refn Courses Copy Share Image
I moved to New York when I was eight years old, in 1978. I grew up in Manhattan. I couldn't speak any… — Nicolas Winding Refn New 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
Man's fear of sexuality is the basis of all horror from the male perspective. — Nicolas Winding Refn Bases Copy Share Image
Cinema is mass media, it is both overtly gross and exciting. It is our great mirror of society. — Nicolas Winding Refn Cinema Copy Share Image
The world needs change, change needs an activity. It has to be planted by a thought. — Nicolas Winding Refn Activity Copy Share Image
The power of art is as powerful as weapons of mass destruction; it's just where war destroys, art inspires. But in order… — Nicolas Winding Refn Art Copy Share Image
