Nicolas Winding Refn famous quotes

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

#Art #Powerful #War

I've never really been on a date, because I've been with the same girl since my early twenties, but on our first date, I showed her The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. I was like, "Hey, you've got to see this!" And we've been together ever since.
-- Nicolas Winding Refn

#Girl #Texas #Together

I love films, I love movies, I love television, I love television series, I love the internet, I love anything that enhances images. But most of all, I love, love movies.
-- Nicolas Winding Refn

#Movie Love #Television #Film

I am a child of cinema, and I am a cineaste, so everything I do is a reference to something I've heard or experienced or seen. And we all do it, we all steal. The ones who claim they don't, are obviously lying, because you do. You just have to make it your own.
-- Nicolas Winding Refn

#Children #Lying #Cinema

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

#Artist #Together #Inspired

The thing with Ryan, you can look at him for hours. Very few actors have that. It's a gift.
-- Nicolas Winding Refn

#Looks #Actors #Hours

I feel that silence is the greatest word, ever. When you don't talk, people begin to read things into you or you become what they long for. When you don't talk, you almost become the mirror image of the other person.
-- Nicolas Winding Refn

#Mirrors #Long #People

There's incredible effect in being either loved or hated, but knowing that, either way, you have penetrated the mind and have altered it; that is a very pleasurable feeling.
-- Nicolas Winding Refn

#Knowing #Feelings #Mind

Creativity is narcissism. Creativity is falling in love with one's self as you create. It's self-indulgent.
-- Nicolas Winding Refn

#Falling In Love #Fall #Creativity

The act of creation can be an extreme violent experience.
-- Nicolas Winding Refn

#Creation #Violent #Extremes

I don't believe that art makes people violent in any way. I don't. But I do believe art can show people how to be violent and that's much more dangerous in a way.
-- Nicolas Winding Refn

#Art #Believe #People

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

#Thinking

Reaction is what changes your understanding of the world.
-- Nicolas Winding Refn

#Understanding #World #Reactions

The artificial world that we create through images will essentially become real.
-- Nicolas Winding Refn

#Real #World #Artificial

Cinema is mass media, it is both overtly gross and exciting. It is our great mirror of society.
-- Nicolas Winding Refn

#Mirrors #Media #Cinema

Look at the birth of anything; it's always more violent than anything you could ever imagine.
-- Nicolas Winding Refn

#Looks #Birth #Imagine

I've been making films with almost no dialogue (laughs), so sound and music become a very powerful character to tell the story. It's almost like with sound and music and images, it's your tool to tell the story, especially when I decide to structure the film in a way that usually goes against the conventions of the three-act structure which most films are made out of.
-- Nicolas Winding Refn

#Powerful #Character #Sound And Music

The problem with cinema nowadays is that it's a math problem. People can read a film mathematically; they know when this comes or that comes; in about 30 minutes, it's going to be over and have an ending. So film has become a mathematical solution. And that is boring, because art is not mathematical.
-- Nicolas Winding Refn

#Art #Math #People

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

#Thinking #Drug #Pieces

I mean, what do you think creativity is? Nothing but self-indulgence. And the more self-indulgent it is, the more interesting it becomes. So I think that part of creativity is also falling in love with your own narcissism: accepting it, using it as an asset.
-- Nicolas Winding Refn

#Falling In Love #Love You #Creativity

The power of art is as powerful as weapons of mass destruction; it's just where war destroys, art inspires. But in order to inspire, you need to react to it. And, if it doesn't penetrate your mind, you can't react to it.
-- Nicolas Winding Refn

#Art #Powerful #War

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

#Hands #Culture #Fabulous

In "Drive," there's a heightened male edge. In "Only God Forgives," it was almost crawling back into the womb of the mother. And now with "The Neon Demon," being reborn as a 16-year-old girl.
-- Nicolas Winding Refn

#Girl #Mother #Years

I love fear, and fear breeds creativity. It forces you to react instinctively, which is the essence of movement. Movement is a creativity - a sense of an emotional movement. And the more instinctual you can make that, the more pleasurable it is. It's like an infant drawing. You're completely uninhibited because creativity is a wonderful expression. Good or bad, who cares? That's part of the past. The act of creativity is what's interesting.
-- Nicolas Winding Refn

#Creativity #Past #Emotional

Understanding one's own power is more interesting than someone being given something powerful.
-- Nicolas Winding Refn

#Powerful #Interesting #Understanding

Financially, it was very successful. Which is the most important thing. That is the only way you get to make another movie. It's very simple. The market will value you.
-- Nicolas Winding Refn

#Successful #Simple #Important

You must understand that violence in a movie is only a tool. If it's used badly, it will be horrible. If it's used correctly, it can be very interesting. But, essentially, it's just a tool.
-- Nicolas Winding Refn

#Interesting #Tools #Violence

My movie [The Neon Demon] is a hyper-version of the obsession with beauty. As this crazy obsession grows, longevity does not. Everything seems to become younger and younger. The girls and people around them cannibalize themselves.
-- Nicolas Winding Refn

#Girl #Crazy #People

I think that experiencing through art is a wonderful way to expand the horizon and everything around it.
-- Nicolas Winding Refn

#Art #Thinking #Horizon