Nicolas Winding Refn

The greatest artists were in a situation where they had to pay their bills. That's a very convenient way to get very creative very fast.

Creativity is about a reaction.

I base everything on my instinctual approach. There's something very satisfying in that creativity, and it's a bit like an infant drawing.

Denmark is like a Sylvanian world, but one thing it breeds is malady. The malady is generally in good taste. Opinions are correct. That is the chief enemy of creativity.

When I was 20 years old, my uncle was an arthouse distributor, and he would take me to Cannes every year to work as a film scout.

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.

I've always felt that I was from the future because the future is really not about what you make but what you stand for.

I'm glamour. I'm vulgarity. I'm scandal. I'm gossip. I'm the future. I'm the counter culture. I'm commercial reality. I'm artistic singularity.