Nicolas Winding Refn Quotes

Doing makeup was a way to create characters, only I got tired of doing it for other people.

Music I can discover a part of myself that I haven't been able to for a long time, and acting is the opposite. I'm in love with both of them and I would never choose one over the other.

Me being myself, I'm not happy when I'm not playing.

I want things to be characters and not me. Why would I want to play me?

With every project you do, you bring out a part of yourself, and it seems to be quite a good way of expanding a person.

Twitter is a place where you share your thoughts, yourself... you don't want a plain white backdrop for that. You want the entire page to say something about who you are. Designer or not, if the urge strikes you, go for it. Put up that watercolor you've never shown anyone. Take a photo of that hat you just knitted... whatever it is, share it.

I needed freedom to really express myself. That's really what Justified is about.

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

My music is my way to rearrange the world according to my own hopes.

I like to use all of myself, and acting wasn't doing that.

The reason I put make-up on or wear the costume is to try and find my own style. It's like my guitar style - I'm just trying to be an original artist.

Songwriting helps me sort out my personal problems. With acting, you're just a tool for someone's ideas.

Everything I do is personal. I have never made a movie that didn't have very strong personal resonance.

I, in the end, make art for myself.

I don't make films for other people; I make films for me.

Everything that is strong in me has gone into my art work.

'Frances Ha' is the closest final product to what I had in my head of any movie I've made. I'm not entirely even sure why that is.

My work is intensely personal.

All of my films have been autobiographical - it's all I've got to go on.

I make films for the 16-year-old in myself sometimes.

In a perfect world, I would be a painter. I love working with my hands. I don't get to do it as much as I like, but I am finding a way to make more time as life goes on because it's a really great outlet for me to express myself.

In everything I do, I find some of myself, or a lot of myself, and put it into the role.

I suppose I'm always trying to break down the wall between my characters and myself. I'm trying to make the film as expressive and personal as I can, even if I can't explain, for example, how important it is for me to be Jewish.

Painting is such an individual profession. I'm not performing. There's no audience.

Even if a kid doesn't go into acting or the arts like I did, some kids need that environment to find themselves and find what they love to do.