Nicolas Winding Refn Quotes

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Nicolas Winding Refn

Profession : Director

Birth : September 29, 1970

I wanted to be famous. I guess I thought acting would make me famous.

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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.

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I know how terrifying L.A. can be, because I've been there as a failure. After 'Drive,' it was the most marvellous place in the universe.

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America has no one to catch you when you fall. That makes you want to achieve. It is healthy for the soul. But all that is valued is success.

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Beauty is like a new class system. The world is so obsessed with beauty; it has been for the last 2,000 years. It's the one stock that's never gone down, the one stock that's never gone out of fashion.

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I like extremes.

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The greatest artists were in a situation where they had to pay their bills. That's a very convenient way to get very creative very fast.

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I think the Internet is the greatest invention since women.

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For me, it's all about having the performers feel confident in their movements and surroundings. And then I'll figure out how to photograph it afterward.

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There are wonderful artists who deal in the fashion world only, and you see by their creations that they are changing our understanding of sexuality and freedom and gender-bending.

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The most creative phase of a film is in shooting, because structure is the defining element of that phase.

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I'm a huge admirer of Keanu. I think he's absolutely extraordinary.

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I think that every man has a 16-year-old girl inside of him.

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I'm not a political filmmaker.

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We live in a time where it's very much in vogue, constant search for pure utopian equality, and which, on one level, is quite amusingly silly but also on another probably very important.

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When I was 20 years old, my uncle was an arthouse distributor, and he would take me to Cannes every year to work as a film scout.

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I started making films purely based on what I would like to see.

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I always approach every film I make as if it was going to be the last. So if I'm going to go out, I'm going out with a bang.

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I always, as a firm rule, make my movies based on how inexpensively I can make them because that means the more freedom I'm going to have.

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Oh, I love L.A. It's not so much about Hollywood. I love everything in L.A.

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