Nicolas Winding Refn Quotes

One of the things I love about cinema is the range.

Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas.

I'm just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining films. I just try and draw upon the great culture we have as a people, from music, novels, the streets.

Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.

History opens up new worlds to film-makers all the time.

I love movies. Movies have influenced me as a writer.

I try to use whatever I know about photography to be of service to the people I'm photographing.

Film and art are close together.

Cinema is a world of imagination.

Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music.

I'm interested in films, in directing.

I really love to make movies.

A movie is about human beings, about humanity.

Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.

Movies aren't just supposed to be a representation of reality. They're supposed to be an art.

I think that cinema is medium of communication. It's as valid as novels or fine art.

I'm interested in the film world; I love being a storyteller.

I am not bothered about money. I have no dreams that feature money. I dream only of good cinema and good scripts.

I love being part of cinema and I don't see myself doing anything else.

To me, only the filmmaker and the role matters.

What is film-making about if not romance?

Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people.

People say you can't make movies about your politics or the environment. And, generally speaking, I completely divide those sides of my brain.

When I go to the movies, one of my strongest desires is to be shown something new. I want to go to new places, meet new people, have new experiences. When I see Hollywood formulas mindlessly repeated, a little something dies inside of me: I have lost two hours to boors who insist on telling me stories I have heard before.

I don't think I'm essentially interested in children's books. I'm interested in writing, and in pictures. I'm interested in people and in children because they are people.