Hollywood is Hollywood. It’ll never change, although it does go through its own transformations. I think that there’s this obsessiveness with making money, which has gotten out of proportion. Nicolas Winding Refn Read Quote
I very much love Los Angeles, and I love working here. I find it very inspiring and very creative, and some of the best crews are in Los Angeles. Nicolas Winding Refn Read Quote
I find beauty very frightening because it’s such an all consuming subject in our society. Nicolas Winding Refn Read Quote
I think that, again, filmmaking is the director’s medium in the end, and the best thing a producer can do is stay out of the way and support the director one hundred percent. Nicolas Winding Refn Read Quote
The more we become civilized, the more we simultaneously understand our need to be virtuous and our need to understand our experiences on a subconscious level. Nicolas Winding Refn Read Quote
If an actor or actress is recognizable, that changes our perception of them. Sometimes you can play against type, or you can just repeat what they’ve already done. It can be an obstacle; it’s a very fine line. Nicolas Winding Refn Read Quote
A lot of the surreal filmmakers, like David Lynch, Alejandro Jodorowsky, or countless other underground filmmakers… Their sense of explosive images have always dominated their films. It’s a way to shock the senses, to make them open themselves. Nicolas Winding Refn Read Quote
Valhalla Rising’ is a fusion of my upbringing, basically: everything I grew up loving and wanted to make a film of. Nicolas Winding Refn Read Quote
