Nicolas Winding Refn

Coming to Hollywood, you always hear the horror stories, but I had good people around me who maybe didn't understand what I was doing but always protected me.

There are wonderful artists who deal in the fashion world only, and you see by their creations that they are changing our understanding of sexuality and freedom and gender-bending.

The best way to move forward - to bury the past. That doesn't mean you forget it.

L.A. is, on one hand, very mysterious; it's very modern. It's a mysterious place - it's a haunting place - and everything in our culture around the world of entertainment leads back to Hollywood.

I know how terrifying L.A. can be, because I've been there as a failure. After 'Drive,' it was the most marvellous place in the universe.

I believe in free education, free healthcare. But I do not believe in equality.

We live in a time where it's very much in vogue, constant search for pure utopian equality, and which, on one level, is quite amusingly silly but also on another probably very important.

Art is very much about making your weaknesses your strength.

Television is dead. And television will not be reborn. It will not come back.

I'm dyslexic, which means I have trouble reading and writing. So images really speak to me.

I'm not a political filmmaker.

As long as your movies don't lose money, you'll always be able to make them.