Nicolas Winding Refn Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• 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

  Inspirational, Art, Powerful

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• The conversations about a film are an example of success because then you know whatever you've done has resonated.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Example, Done, Film

  Source: collider.com

• I woke up one day and I realized I wasn't born beautiful, but my wife was, so I decided to make a horror film about it: what it would be like to be born beautiful.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Beautiful, Wife, One Day

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I wanted to make a horror film about beauty.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Horror, Film, Wanted

  Source: movieweb.com

• 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'm a fetish filmmaker, in that I don't know why I do what I do, I just like to see things. When I figure out what I would like to see, I will put it in a film.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Film, Figures, Fetish

  Source: collider.com

• My initial idea was I wanted to make it a horror film, very much. At times I do enter that world.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Ideas, World, Horror

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

• Jenna Malone was a very important piece of how the film [The Neon Demon] turned out.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Important, Pieces, Neon

  Source: movieweb.com

• I was in Hollywood. It's the mythology heart. It's where all the European films came in the '30s and '40s. The marriage between Europe and Hollywood has always been the best when it works.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Heart, Europe, Hollywood

• I never desired to really go to Hollywood and make films, and purely because I want my entire control, which I'm used to having.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Hollywood, Want, Film

  "The GQ&A: Drive Director Nicolas Winding Refn". Interview with Sean Fennessey, www.gq.com. September 12, 2011.

• I think the idea was to make a horror film that became a science-fiction film with a lot of melodramatic tropes.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Thinking, Ideas, Fiction

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

• I like doing the promotional work. It's part of the film's process. Cannes was very wonderful to premiere.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Wonderful, Film, Cannes

  Source: movieweb.com

• Doing your first film, it's very important that it's a commercial success, because that gives you a couple times to experiment until you have to hit the jackpot again.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Couple, Giving, Important

  Source: www.indiewire.com

• I'm a fetishist. I make films based on what I would like to see.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Film

  "The GQ&A: Drive Director Nicolas Winding Refn". Interview with Sean Fennessey, www.gq.com. September 12, 2011.

• [Liv Corfixen] very much part of my life in that she's everything in my life and we found a way to use each other much more on a creative level as well. She was kind of the idea for this movie so I wanted to acknowledge that. She gave me the original idea to make the film.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Ideas, Creative, Way

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

• The best thing you can do with actors is collaborate with them. My job is to inspire them to give their best. And they're only inspired if they feel they are part of the creative process, otherwise they'll shut down. So my goal is always to ask people what they would like to do before I even say my opinion. I usually don't know anything until I see it. I'm a fetish filmmaker - I make films based on what I want to see.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  People, Giving, Goal

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

  Source: www.indiewire.com

• Film works when a director and a star have a connection. You know, when there's something telekinetic between them, there's a partnership, it's like alter egos. It's like James Stewart and Alfred Hitchcock, or Fellini and Mastroianni. I'm not comparing, I'm just saying, if you can come into a relationship where the director and star have such a bond, it's so much easier to make a movie.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Stars, Ego, Directors

  "The GQ&A: Drive Director Nicolas Winding Refn". Interview with Sean Fennessey, www.gq.com. September 12, 2011.

• I just think it was time [in THe Neon Demon]to do a film about women. But not just women, I wanted to do a movie about a teenage girl. It was a great counter to the masculinity of "Drive."

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Girl, Teenage, Thinking

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

• Financing films that are demanding is a task, in itself. Because people are so afraid of taking any kind of chance, because they're afraid the audience isn't going to respond. But the audience is so hungry for anything that's a bit original, personal, or different.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  People, Different, Tasks

  Source: www.indiewire.com

• I can't make a film that I don't feel comfortable with.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Film, Feels, I Can

  "The GQ&A: Drive Director Nicolas Winding Refn". Interview with Sean Fennessey, www.gq.com. September 12, 2011.

• I feel Amazon is really bringing films into the future. So for me it was the best of both worlds.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Amazon, World, Film

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

• 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

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

• If you create something that is essentially alien to you - as a man - and make a film about woman, the more I can surround myself with woman and combine it with my soul's point of view, the more I become a stranger in a strange land.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Men, Views, Land

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

• The first person I ever described the film [The Neon Demon] to was Christina Hendricks [who has a cameo in the movie]. We were having dinner in LA and she asked me what I wanted to do next and I said, "I want to do a horror movie." And she goes, "What's it going to be about?" And I said, "A lot of blood and high heels."

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  High Heels, Blood, Want

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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