Nicolas Winding Refn Quotes

I try to never repeat a character. I always try to find something new and fresh and interesting that inspires me.

Honestly, as a director, at least for me, if I start doing the same thing over and over again, I'm going to get bored really quickly.

I should probably confess that I get bored easily, which explains my reluctance to work with formula, tropes, whatever.

I really strive to bring something new to each book. I don't want to write the same book over and over again.

I always make sure that every film of mine has some element of freshness to it.

I fear becoming formulaic. Some of my books are.

If you're not allowed to experiment anymore for fear of being considered self-indulgent or pretentious or what have you, then everyone's going to just stick to the rules - there's not going to be any additional ideas.

What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.

Some people get medals and awards and all that, and maybe not intentionally - maybe the world is making them do it - but they sort of just follow what they were doing. Repeat or follow what they were doing all their lives, in their style of music or whatever. In my case, I always try to start from scratch. It's very nerve-wracking actually, but it's interesting.

I try not to repeat myself. It's the hardest thing in the world to do -- there are only so many notes one human being can master. .

I never feel I repeat myself. I really go out of my way to amuse myself. I would be bored stiff. If I feel the déjavu when I'm doing something, I stop and rethink and rework it.

We do not want to repeat ourselves [in Doctor Strange] or do what's been done before necessarily, and when you have a track record now you can either do that and keep, this seems to work and let's keep doing this - which some people accuse us of no matter what, because I don't think they pay attention, but really what we do is say, 'Okay, we have a studio that trusts us and let's us do what we want for the most part with the creative.

It's always about trying to do something that's different and not repeating yourself because then you lose your creative stamina. You need to have new challenges.

If you take your last album & try to copy it, then thats sure to hell the way to stagnation. And that makes me bored...and if I'm bored then the music is boring and so are the band!

Creativity is the process that gives life to a new product.

A requirement of creativity is that it contributes to change. Creativity keeps the creator alive.

Let's use that to make as interesting and different and unique a story as possible and not just stay with the same thing.' And this movie is certainly the embodiment of that.

I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

If something comes around that would be a challenge, then that would be wonderful. But if it's a watered-down version of something I've already done, I'd rather do something else.

I love people who break boundaries and always create something new and fresh.

The minute you start assuming that the audience is very happy to see the same show again, you're dead.

Knowledge comes from the past, so it's safe. It is also out of date. It's the opposite of originality... Experience is the opposite of being creative.

The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.

I think that a lot of people just don't understand creativity.