Nicolas Winding Refn Quotes

The intensity of 'Arjun Reddy' was too much for me.

Audiences want to feel something intense, quickly, without wasting a lot of time.

Martin Landau in 'Crimes and Misdemeanors' - he gave me chills.

It's hard to say how certain stories just punch us in the heart and the brain at the same time at the end. I suppose that's what we're all looking for. But each story has its own valence, its own way of saying goodbye to you.

I remember watching movies like 'Fatal Attraction' and watching the audience go bananas at the end of the film.

Whatever the raw material, the material itself is unimportant until it's catalyzed by emotional fervor. So in the ideal exchange between me and my listeners, they wouldn't 'figure out' my music. They would feel their pulse racing and the hair standing up on the backs of their necks.

We all get so excited about the big events, but when there's an animal involved, it's ten times harder.

Despite what Wordsworth says about thoughts that 'lie too deep for tears', I think tears are a pretty reliable indication of being in the grips of a profound experience.

I just don't ever want it to be nice. I'd prefer someone had a violent reaction to my collection than ever call it 'nice.'

I get emotional easily: I feel like 'Cupcake Wars,' 'Chopped' - the right episode just breaks you apart.

When she started crying in my rehearsal, I felt so badly because I was like, 'I'm making Kelly Clarkson cry right now,' but it also felt really good because I thought, 'If she is feeling this, hopefully, America will feel this, too.'

You either have to make people love you or you have to make them hate you, it doesn't really matter either way. If you can't bring that emotion out of your audience then you're not going to have them for long.

I'd rather create something that gives people a very strong reaction than create a show that someone looks at and says, 'Hmm. Fine.'

I think lighting is a reflection of what is at stake emotionally in a movie.

Cinema has to move people.

This game will make you cry more often than not.

I always want to be somewhat uncomfortable. But at the same time I want to make music that you react to viscerally.

I saw Lee J. Cobb in 'Death of a Salesman' when I was about 15, and I couldn't get up from my seat in the theater; I was so... I was weeping, and I was upset. And I find that people are still like that in a similar circumstance in a theater today, where they just can't get up. It's too heartbreaking.

I usually don't cry at movies, although I will get sad. I'm okay with it, though. It's good to make people cry.

A lot of people think I reacted a little too emotionally when I said, 'If I can't beat Adrian Neville, I'm done.' But the truth is, my whole life, I've always followed my heart and my emotions.

You listen to something like 'Beast Mode,' and it's almost like looking at a pretty painting.

When I read the script for 'War Horse,' I was in absolute tatters.

A lot of people... are afraid of pictures which have visible emotions in them. They feel calmer in front of pictures which are placid.

She heard the very beginning of a smile in his voice--a fetal smile--and it very nearly killed her.

There is only one universal passion fear.