Nicolas Winding Refn Quotes

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• Like all art forms, film is a media as powerful as weapons of mass destruction; the only difference is that war destroys and film inspires.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Inspirational, Art, Powerful

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I feel that silence is the greatest word, ever. When you don't talk, people begin to read things into you or you become what they long for. When you don't talk, you almost become the mirror image of the other person.

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  Mirrors, Long, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I am a child of cinema, and I am a cineaste, so everything I do is a reference to something I've heard or experienced or seen. And we all do it, we all steal. The ones who claim they don't, are obviously lying, because you do. You just have to make it your own.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Children, Lying, Cinema

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• There's incredible effect in being either loved or hated, but knowing that, either way, you have penetrated the mind and have altered it; that is a very pleasurable feeling.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Knowing, Feelings, Mind

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• Creativity is narcissism. Creativity is falling in love with one's self as you create. It's self-indulgent.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Falling In Love, Fall, Creativity

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• The act of creation can be an extreme violent experience.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Creation, Violent, Extremes

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I don't believe that art makes people violent in any way. I don't. But I do believe art can show people how to be violent and that's much more dangerous in a way.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Art, Believe, People

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I think that I am a pornographer, meaning that I make movies based on what excites me and what I would like to see.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Thinking

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Reaction is what changes your understanding of the world.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Understanding, World, Reactions

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The artificial world that we create through images will essentially become real.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Real, World, Artificial

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Cinema is mass media, it is both overtly gross and exciting. It is our great mirror of society.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Mirrors, Media, Cinema

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Look at the birth of anything; it's always more violent than anything you could ever imagine.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Looks, Birth, Imagine

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I've been making films with almost no dialogue (laughs), so sound and music become a very powerful character to tell the story. It's almost like with sound and music and images, it's your tool to tell the story, especially when I decide to structure the film in a way that usually goes against the conventions of the three-act structure which most films are made out of.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Powerful, Character, Sound And Music

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• The problem with cinema nowadays is that it's a math problem. People can read a film mathematically; they know when this comes or that comes; in about 30 minutes, it's going to be over and have an ending. So film has become a mathematical solution. And that is boring, because art is not mathematical.

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  Art, Math, People

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I think that's the struggle of our normality is that we have oppressed desires because of what is accepted and not accepted in society.

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  Struggle, Thinking, Desire

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I mean, what do you think creativity is? Nothing but self-indulgence. And the more self-indulgent it is, the more interesting it becomes. So I think that part of creativity is also falling in love with your own narcissism: accepting it, using it as an asset.

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  Falling In Love, Love You, Creativity

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The power of art is as powerful as weapons of mass destruction; it's just where war destroys, art inspires. But in order to inspire, you need to react to it. And, if it doesn't penetrate your mind, you can't react to it.

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  Art, Powerful, War

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I don't do drugs, and so music very much gets me going. When I do something, I think, "If it was a piece of music, what would it be?"

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  Thinking, Drug, Pieces

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• We live in a beauty-obsessed culture, which on one hand is absolutely fabulous, but on the flip side, is also dangerously extreme.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Hands, Culture, Fabulous

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I woke up one day and I realized I wasn't born beautiful, but my wife was, so I decided to make a horror film about it: what it would be like to be born beautiful.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Beautiful, Wife, One Day

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think when you make a movie, one of your main focuses as a director is to inspire everyone else to give their best. Like manipulation.

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  Thinking, Giving, Inspire

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I love fear, and fear breeds creativity. It forces you to react instinctively, which is the essence of movement. Movement is a creativity - a sense of an emotional movement. And the more instinctual you can make that, the more pleasurable it is. It's like an infant drawing. You're completely uninhibited because creativity is a wonderful expression. Good or bad, who cares? That's part of the past. The act of creativity is what's interesting.

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  Creativity, Past, Emotional

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• When you make something that everyone likes, it's very easy to say, "Well, I'll just repeat that." Because that was easy. I have a formula. But creatively, it's not very interesting.

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  Interesting, Likes, Easy

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• I love films, I love movies, I love television, I love television series, I love the internet, I love anything that enhances images. But most of all, I love, love movies.

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  Movie Love, Television, Film

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• The idea of narcissism, essentially, is and will be accepted as a virtue.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Ideas, Narcissism, Virtue

  Source: www.avclub.com

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