Love comes from the strangest places.

- Nicolas Winding Refn

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

- Nicolas Winding Refn

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 danger…

- Nicolas Winding Refn

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 …

- Nicolas Winding Refn

The act of creation can be an extreme violent experience.

- Nicolas Winding Refn

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 v…

- Nicolas Winding Refn

Reaction is what changes your understanding of the world.

- Nicolas Winding Refn

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

- Nicolas Winding Refn

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