Nicolas Winding Refn Quotes

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Nicolas Winding Refn

Profession : Director

Birth : September 29, 1970

Filmmaking is not about what we see - it's a very misconceived notion; it's about what we don't see.

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I think that art is an act of violence, and the more emotionally engaged you are in a piece of art, the more violent it feels.

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I believe that the constant possibility of failure or possibility of decision-making feeds your creativity.

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Hollywood is Hollywood. It'll never change, although it does go through its own transformations. I think that there's this obsessiveness with making money, which has gotten out of proportion.

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Writing is fantasizing about what your film will be like. Shooting is reality. And the post-production is recovering the idea you had.

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I've always worked a lot with silence in my films. It forces the audience to concentrate on what they're seeing, because silence is pure emotions. It has no logic; it goes straight to the heart.

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I'm not a guy's guy. I always loved girl things. I loved dolls. I loved dressing up and much more.

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I'm dyslexic, which means I have trouble reading and writing. So images really speak to me.

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I don't really make films in Denmark. 'Bronson' was shot in Rottingham, 'Valhalla Rising' was made in Glasgow, and 'Drive' was made in Hollywood.

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Creativity is about taking what is the norm and expanding it and continuing to expand it and expand it and expand it and expand it.

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The greater the darkness, the better the drama.

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People need to express themselves. The more you do that, the better a person you become.

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I find beauty very frightening because it's such an all consuming subject in our society.

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I believe in free education, free healthcare. But I do not believe in equality.

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With 'Only God Forgives,' what's great about that movie is it just freaked so many people out.

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A good director is not an expert in anything in particular. A good director just knows a little bit about everything.

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The 'Neon Demon' is very much designed to be like a YouTube movie. It's designed to be chopped up. You can cut it up into seven or eight pieces and they're, like, vignettes.

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I moved to New York when I was eight years old, in 1978. I grew up in Manhattan. I couldn't speak any English, and I had dyslexia, so it took me many years before I could read.

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My mother and stepfather were documentary filmmakers and, of course, had a very healthy Scandinavian mentality. When it came to cinema, my mother was very obsessed with the French New Wave. That was her generation.

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When I was 12 or 13, I started going to the cinema myself.

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