Nicolas Winding Refn Quotes

I want to make movies that I want to see, and what I miss and I'm not seeing.

I only make those films that I would love to watch.

I like making movies for myself and my friends and people with my sensibility.

I make movies I want to see.

When you make a movie, you can only make the movie that you would want to see.

I just make films that attract me.

I just want to make TV that I want to see.

You can't make a film for your personal satisfaction. That is why I detest the cinema of people like Mani Kaul.

I am my own audience. I always picture me and my mates and think, 'What would we enjoy listening to?'

I only make movies that are interesting to me.

If it were all in the script, why make the film?

I like to make movies I like to watch.

I know the movies that I've liked, and I know the experience that they've given me, so the goal is always to try to create a movie that I would like myself and that would knock me out, challenge me or intrigue me in some way. That's been my criteria for figuring out what I want to do, or also when I'm writing something or creating a scene.

All these directors, and I would include the Coen brothers and Quentin, have a very unique vision of what they want. They listen to ideas and make people feel like everyone is making the film.

A movie is made for an audience and a film is made for both the audience and the film-makers.

I'm doing the kind of show that I would want to see.

No two directors make the same film the same way.

I don't make films to reproduce reality.

I just want to go on making movies, and some of them will be completely meaningless, except, of course, to me.

I do films that I'd also like to watch as an audience member.

Since I started as an actress in the film industry, I realised the power of visuals and how that can fuel the imagination of our mind. It is very powerful. Therefore, I always cater to my own sensibility first and then to the world.

I make films about stories that I get interested in.

The kind of work I do and the films I believe in, I had to take charge of making that kind of cinema.

I have my own ideas when it comes to making cinema. My films should be of my liking and suit my convictions.

I think, if you can, it's OK to put something in a movie because it makes you feel good.