Nicolas Winding Refn Quotes

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Nicolas Winding Refn

Profession : Director

Birth : September 29, 1970

The best way to move forward - to bury the past. That doesn't mean you forget it.

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I started buying films a couple of years ago. The first film-maker I began to obsessively collect was Andy Milligan. He was a New York frustrated artist.

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Television is dead. And television will not be reborn. It will not come back.

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People have called me everything. Every word in the dictionary I've been called at one point or another.

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Denmark is like a Sylvanian world, but one thing it breeds is malady. The malady is generally in good taste. Opinions are correct. That is the chief enemy of creativity.

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The only thing that would really make my mother angry would be if I liked horror movies or violence or Ronald Reagan. And very violent films were a way for me to rebel. You have to rebel against your parents.

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You cannot go through life without cause and effect.

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I'm a huge John Hughes fan, and I grew up in the '80s, when his films came out. So, my introduction to what you'd call 'cinema love,' that illusion of love, was 'Sixteen Candles' and Molly Ringwald.

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I base everything on my instinctual approach. There's something very satisfying in that creativity, and it's a bit like an infant drawing.

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Creativity is about a reaction.

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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, which is different parameters, then you're also happy.

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Polarizing is the greatest achievement in any art form, even in cinema.

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I thought it would be interesting to try something in Hollywood after a movie like 'Valhalla Rising,' which I was really pleased with, personally.

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For 'Drive,' we needed the songs to dictate emotions and really bring you into the mind of The Driver; he's a unique and complicated guy, so the music itself had to be unique and complicated.

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My writing has always been more out of the need to write a movie rather than me being a good writer.

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I'm not a walking encyclopedia. I'm not one of those types that knows every single film ever made or can recite every dialog.

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There will always be a theatrical experience because there will always be cinemas no matter what. It's like there will always be theaters to have stage plays in.

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I love watching the superhero movies, and I would love to make one. But in a way, 'Drive' is probably the greatest superhero movie ever made.

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My films are like Christmas: you can't wait to open it.

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As long as your movies don't lose money, you'll always be able to make them.

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