205 Quotes by Nicolas Winding Refn

The world needs change, change needs an activity. It has to be planted by a thought.

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

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.

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.

In a way “Drive” is probably the greatest superhero movie ever made.

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.

I don’t have to go very far to see the power of beauty. Being desired, feeling desired is a very seductive aspect of our being.

Only God Forgives was very much a generation gap in a way. It was all the youth of the world that embraced it. I make films for young people. That’s what I will continue to do.

In “Drive,” there’s a heightened male edge. In “Only God Forgives,” it was almost crawling back into the womb of the mother. And now with “The Neon Demon,” being reborn as a 16-year-old girl.