Nicolas Winding Refn Quotes

Hope is the denial of reality. It is the carrot dangled before the draft horse to keep him plodding along in a vain attempt to reach it." "Are you saying we shouldn't hope?" "I'm saying we should remove the carrot and walk forward with our eyes open!

I believe our techno-zealotry will be moderated by sheer circumstance. We will do what reality compels us to do, not necessarily what our fantasies propose.

Susannah." My dance partner's breath was soft against my cheek. "Susannah...." Yeah. In my dreams. In real life, the voice calling my name wasn't a bit masculine. That's because it belonged to a twelve-year-old boy.

It is impossible for you to take power over the future because it isn't even real...

You should always listen to minotaurs. Anybody with four stomachs has to have a firm grip on reality.

Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard, but takes the one before it and plays the game.

Dream dreams and write them aye, but live them first.

Whenever someone asks me about fantasy versus realism, I'm like, "I don't know, guys. Did we not all just descend into some underworld, watch strangers from our past kaleidoscope through us according to some pattern that is both illogical and has its own strange melting truth, and then wake up and have a Pop-Tart?" Why are we talking about fantasy and reality like they're opposed?

Dreams feel real while we're in them. It's only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange.

Intelligence has got the upper hand to such an extent that it transforms the real task into an unreal trick and reality into a play.

You have to look life straight in the eye. De-mystify your world. Can you really afford to believe magic is for real? Not when time is concerned.

They had dreams but they called them dreams because they were unrelated to reality, they were a distant unknown, an impossibility, they would never come true.

"Well, it's no use your talking about waking him," said Tweedledum, "when you're only one of the things in his dream. You know very well you're not real."

Ideals are great in theory ... but they don't work too well in real life.

Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.

Don't fight a fact, deal with it.

Logic doesn't apply to the real world.

I've found that people who look at things as they are, and not as they wish them to be, are the ones who succeed.

No amount of smiling at a flight of stairs has ever made it turn into a ramp.

Ordinarily all desires exist in the second state of consciousness, the dreaming state. Desire is a dream and to work for a dream is doomed from the very beginning, because a dream can never become real. Even if sometimes you feel it has become almost real, it never becomes real - a dream by nature is empty. It has no substance in it.

Theory and practice sometimes clash. And when that happens, theory loses. Every single time.

Some of the guys when they play, they try to keep it reality. Nah, I need the best everything.

Follow the path of your aroused thought, and you will soon meet this infernal inscription: There is nothing so beautiful as that which does not exist.

I cannot invest the way I want the world to be; I have to invest the way the world is.

The only time a dead certainty applies is in a dream world.