Nicolas Winding Refn Quotes

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Nicolas Winding Refn

Profession : Director

Birth : September 29, 1970

'Bronson' was like, 'I'll do a movie about my own life.' And it became like an experiment.

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Whenever I make a movie, I always try to figure out what kind of music it would be.

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I believe silence is the greatest sound of all.

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I'm not the greatest filmmaker. There are a lot of better filmmakers than me.

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Coming to Hollywood, you always hear the horror stories, but I had good people around me who maybe didn't understand what I was doing but always protected me.

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The first thing I do when I go to people's houses is look at their television, turn it on.

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I like all kinds of film.

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Every film that you make has to have a scene that is the heart that blood flows through in every other scene. That scene doesn't always have to be in the beginning of the film. But it can also be at the end, or in the middle, and that can sometimes make the film more effective.

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I've always felt that I was from the future because the future is really not about what you make but what you stand for.

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My world is just one big chaos!

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I think 'Videodrome' was an absolute philosophical masterpiece.

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Art has the power to influence and to make you react to something that you normally wouldn't concern, worry, or even think about or wouldn't want to talk about.

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I'm calculated in other things, but not in what I make.

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People react to 'Drive' in a way that is very primal.

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Filmmaking is like any kind of art form. You have to try to figure it out, and you're going to do that by trying.

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L.A. films are hard to define compared to New York films because New York films are their own subgenre, in a way. L.A. is more transparent.

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I would love to make a kids' movie. But they are very hard to make.

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I would love to make a romantic comedy.

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All my films represent my own needs and wants.

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I'd love to do a yakuza movie.

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