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I think that Danish people may be thought off as the happiest people, but honestly ... I love America.
— Nicolas Winding Refn
The world needs change, change needs an activity. It has to be planted by a thought.
— Nicolas Winding Refn
I never desired to really go to Hollywood and make films, and purely because I want my entire control, which I'm used to having.
— Nicolas Winding Refn
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
Man's fear of sexuality is the basis of all horror from the male perspective.
— Nicolas Winding Refn
I feel Amazon is really bringing films into the future. So for me it was the best of both worlds.
— Nicolas Winding Refn
In a way "Drive" is probably the greatest superhero movie ever made.
— Nicolas Winding Refn
The act of creation can be an extreme violent experience.
— Nicolas Winding Refn
Jenna Malone was a very important piece of how the film [The Neon Demon] turned out.
— Nicolas Winding Refn
Creativity is very self-indulgent.
— Nicolas Winding Refn
I can't make a film that I don't feel comfortable with.
— Nicolas Winding Refn
The fairy tale always takes place in worlds that are between, unidentifiable.
— Nicolas Winding Refn
That's half of what we do our daily lives - we react to our surroundings. Of course, we have to make it entertaining, and we are entertainers.
— Nicolas Winding Refn
I love rock ballads, and I'm kind of in emotional turmoil, being ill and high, so I start to sing to the song, I turn it up and start to sing.
— Nicolas Winding Refn
I don't do drugs, and so music very much gets me going. When I do something, I think, "If it was a piece of music, what would it be?"
— Nicolas Winding Refn
I love watching the superhero movies and I would love to make one.
— Nicolas Winding Refn
Cinema is mass media, it is both overtly gross and exciting. It is our great mirror of society.
— Nicolas Winding Refn
But once you get down to reality, there's no one to play her and there's no movie. It would be ridiculous.
— Nicolas Winding Refn
The thing with Ryan, you can look at him for hours. Very few actors have that. It's a gift.
— Nicolas Winding Refn
To be honest, the real reason I did 'Drive' was because of Nicolas Winding Refn, the director.
— Christina Hendricks
I wanted to make a horror film about beauty.
— Nicolas Winding Refn
I certainly believe that creativity must be an experience. If I'm to steal time away from people, we should give them something to react to.
— Nicolas Winding Refn
Reaction is what changes your understanding of the world.
— Nicolas Winding Refn
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
I think that's the struggle of our normality is that we have oppressed desires because of what is accepted and not accepted in society.
— Nicolas Winding Refn
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
I'm a fetishist. I make films based on what I would like to see.
— Nicolas Winding Refn
I think that experiencing through art is a wonderful way to expand the horizon and everything around it.
— Nicolas Winding Refn
I like doing the promotional work. It's part of the film's process. Cannes was very wonderful to premiere.
— Nicolas Winding Refn
For me, Amazon has stepped in and presented the future of entertainment. Obviously, the future of entertainment is going to be on the internet.
— Nicolas Winding Refn
I just close my eyes and I fantasize what I would like to see.
— Nicolas Winding Refn
Sometimes you can play against type, or you can just repeat what they've already done. It can be an obstacle; it's a very fine line.
— Nicolas Winding Refn
I think that I am a pornographer, meaning that I make movies based on what excites me and what I would like to see.
— Nicolas Winding Refn
The vibe, it's that excitement. New York, you just can't describe it. You get a similar thing from Paris and London, but it's not New York.
— Nicolas Winding Refn
The conversations about a film are an example of success because then you know whatever you've done has resonated.
— Nicolas Winding Refn
My initial idea was I wanted to make it a horror film, very much. At times I do enter that world.
— Nicolas Winding Refn
I don't drive because I failed eight times and never got my license.
— Nicolas Winding Refn
I always say I have a Danish passport, but I am a New Yorker at heart.
— Nicolas Winding Refn
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
If an actor or actress is recognizable, that changes our perception of them.
— Nicolas Winding Refn
Good and bad, what's good and bad? I don't know.
— Nicolas Winding Refn
I grew up in the '80s and John Hughes was the filmmaker making serious movies for teenagers.
— Nicolas Winding Refn
The minute you celebrate narcissism, which on one hand is very complex, it's very ridiculous. You have to love oneself with humor.
— Nicolas Winding Refn
Love comes from the strangest places.
— Nicolas Winding Refn
I believe shooting chronologically gives you a very fresh perspective and you're always aware of where you are in the development of the characters.
— Nicolas Winding Refn
The artificial world that we create through images will essentially become real.
— Nicolas Winding Refn
You know the one I want to do? I want to make Batgirl.
— Nicolas Winding Refn
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[The Neon Demon] was more my own fascination with beauty. It's my children's fascination beauty.
— Nicolas Winding Refn
I have not seen "Batman v Superman," unfortunately. It hasn't been on the plane, as I've been flying a lot.
— Nicolas Winding Refn
I like the early comic book characters more than the new ones.
— Nicolas Winding Refn
Understanding one's own power is more interesting than someone being given something powerful.
— Nicolas Winding Refn
When we met, my agenda was "Get Elle Fanning." I believe Elle's was "Get the role." But we didn't know that.
— Nicolas Winding Refn
The idea of narcissism, essentially, is and will be accepted as a virtue.
— Nicolas Winding Refn
Abbey Lee was a very famous model and had great success. She was very open about the negative aspects of that industry.
— Nicolas Winding Refn
If the Wizard of Oz were real he would be in Hollywood.
— Nicolas Winding Refn
The character requires so many elements. The only one who could fulfill that was this one person: Elle Fanning.
— Nicolas Winding Refn
Like all art forms, film is a media as powerful as weapons of mass destruction; the only difference is that war destroys and film inspires.
— Nicolas Winding Refn
I'm a very feminine man. I like feminine things. I don't go to strip clubs. I don't drink beer. I don't play sports.
— Nicolas Winding Refn
I consider it a great honour that my movie Drive inspired so many wonderful artists to come together and create one ultra-cool glam experience.
— Nicolas Winding Refn
I always think once you have the lead protagonist, you cast around that character.
— Nicolas Winding Refn
