As long as your movies don't lose money, you'll always be able to make them. — Nicolas Winding Refn Always Copy Share Image
Television is dead. And television will not be reborn. It will not come back. — Nicolas Winding Refn Back Copy Share Image
In a way "Drive" is probably the greatest superhero movie ever made. — Nicolas Winding Refn Comic Copy Share Image
I feel Amazon is really bringing films into the future. So for me it was the best of both worlds. — Nicolas Winding Refn Amazon Copy Share Image
I think that experiencing through art is a wonderful way to expand the horizon and everything around it. — Nicolas Winding Refn Art Copy Share Image
I started making films purely based on what I would like to see. — Nicolas Winding Refn Based Copy Share Image
I think the idea was to make a horror film that became a science-fiction film with a lot of melodramatic tropes. — Nicolas Winding Refn Cinema Copy Share Image
Filmmaking is not about what we see - it's a very misconceived notion; it's about what we don't see. — Nicolas Winding Refn About Copy Share Image
I don't know if power seduces less or more. I think power is a constant evolving mechanism that, since the dawn of… — Nicolas Winding Refn Constant Copy Share Image
Denmark is like a Sylvanian world, but one thing it breeds is malady. The malady is generally in good taste. Opinions are… — Nicolas Winding Refn Creativity Copy Share Image
Nowadays, teenagers are so fast and quick to see through any form of manipulation. Sitting down and just thinking of something is… — Nicolas Winding Refn Down and Copy Share Image
We live in a time where it's very much in vogue, constant search for pure utopian equality, and which, on one level,… — Nicolas Winding Refn Equality Copy Share Image
I love films, I love movies, I love television, I love television series, I love the internet, I love anything that enhances… — Nicolas Winding Refn Cinema Copy Share Image
The only thing that would really make my mother angry would be if I liked horror movies or violence or Ronald Reagan.… — Nicolas Winding Refn Horror movies Copy Share Image
It was a very comfortable and personal relationship [Cliff Martinez ].'The Neon Demon'is our third movie and the music has never been… — Nicolas Winding Refn Cliffs Copy Share Image
I had met Keanu [Reeves]a few times so it was a great way to reach out to him with an actual job… — Nicolas Winding Refn Amazing experience 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've been lucky to have a beautiful wife and children. The idea that something so beautiful can be so horrific at the… — Nicolas Winding Refn Beautiful Copy Share Image
My mother and stepfather were documentary filmmakers and, of course, had a very healthy Scandinavian mentality. When it came to cinema, my… — Nicolas Winding Refn Cinema Copy Share Image
The kind of group mentality that we had lived under since the Second World War is starting to erupt, and the craving… — Nicolas Winding Refn Craving 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 Beauty Copy Share Image
I don't really make films in Denmark. 'Bronson' was shot in Rottingham, 'Valhalla Rising' was made in Glasgow, and 'Drive' was made… — Nicolas Winding Refn Cinema Copy Share Image
I think you have to be so indulgent in creativity in that, if you're happy, it's successful. If it's then financially successful,… — Nicolas Winding Refn Creativity Copy Share Image
I love rock ballads, and I'm kind of in emotional turmoil, being ill and high, so I start to sing to the… — Nicolas Winding Refn Ballads Copy Share Image
Art has the power to influence and to make you react to something that you normally wouldn't concern, worry, or even think… — Nicolas Winding Refn Art Copy Share Image
For 'Drive,' we needed the songs to dictate emotions and really bring you into the mind of The Driver; he's a unique… — Nicolas Winding Refn Complicated 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,… — Nicolas Winding Refn Amazon 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
I've done collaborations in all my movies, and I think it's part of what I enjoy about the process. This kind of… — Nicolas Winding Refn Collaboration Copy Share Image
I just think it was time [in THe Neon Demon]to do a film about women. But not just women, I wanted to… — Nicolas Winding Refn Cinema Copy Share Image
I consider it a great honour that my movie Drive inspired so many wonderful artists to come together and create one ultra-cool… — Nicolas Winding Refn Artist Copy Share Image
I sometimes play different kinds of music to see where the performers end up. I play one genre. Then something else when… — Nicolas Winding Refn Different Copy Share Image
I woke up one day and I realized I wasn't born beautiful, but my wife was, so I decided to make a… — Nicolas Winding Refn Beautiful 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
For me, it's all about having the performers feel confident in their movements and surroundings. And then I'll figure out how to… — Nicolas Winding Refn About 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 Good Copy Share Image
When you make something that everyone likes, it's very easy to say, "Well, I'll just repeat that." Because that was easy. I… — Nicolas Winding Refn Easy 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
If an actor or actress is recognizable, that changes our perception of them. Sometimes you can play against type, or you can… — Nicolas Winding Refn Actor Copy Share Image
Hollywood is Hollywood. It'll never change, although it does go through its own transformations. I think that there's this obsessiveness with making… — Nicolas Winding Refn Change Copy Share Image