Nicolas Winding Refn Quotes

I am a kid. I'll always be a girl at heart.

I've never been more than 9 years old.

I think that the child in me is ever dominant, but that doesn't make me less of a woman.

Maybe I'm sort of like the players - there's still a lot of little boy in me.

I've always felt like a kid, and I still feel like a kid, and I've never had any problem tapping into my childhood, and my kid side.

Underneath this tired, middle-aged exterior, I'm an 11 year old kid.

I write for what's left of the eight-year-old still rattling around inside my head.

I never grew up.

We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.

I love young people. I identify with them. It never was a goal of mine to grow up.

I don't grow up. In me is the small child of my early days.

I'm a boy who doesn't want to grow up.

Every teenage artist out there is mostly talking about boys, and I think there's so much more to being a teenager than just boys.

Michael is a kid, sort of, like, I mean, Michael is a kid himself; he's never really grown up.

I don't feel like I'm grown up. I feel like I'm a kid.

I think the child I was until 12 was so much more interesting than the teenager I became.

I think most girls have that moment when boys they've known their whole life see them in a different way.

I was a really girly girl when I was younger. I only wore pink until I was at least 12. Think of me in culottes with a Bagpuss T-shirt and frizzy hair. Oh, and I was a fat child. It was bad news.

'Carrie Diaries' is very heartfelt and earnest in a lot of ways.

Sexuality and sensuality exists in every women, along with innocence, and I have represented only those through my characters.

I think the teenage sides of myself have informed my adult self.

I loved everything about being ten, eleven, and twelve years old, and seem to make most of my heroines and heroes that age so I can reexperience all those pitfalls and wonderful discoveries. It helps me to figure out my own life when I write from that eleven year old place!

I always wanted to make a coming-of-age film, or something about growing up, like 'The Wonder Years,' 'Stand By Me' or 'Diner.'

I know I'm grown, but there's a part of me who will eternally be six years old.

Everyone thinks you have to grow up to know who you are, but kids already know who we are. The world just beats it out of us.