Refn Movies Quotes & Sayings

I grew up in the '80s and John Hughes was the filmmaker making serious movies for teenagers. — Nicolas Winding Refn

And suddenly she resembled not so much a bland dish of pudding as the surface of a well-known, yet never explored lake, and he, standing on the banks, had just seen a movement underwater, an enigmatic shadow that disappeared so quickly he wasn't sure he hadn't imagined the whole thing. — Sherry Thomas

I've done collaborations in all my movies, and I think it's part of what I enjoy about the process. This kind of intimacy that you create. Because it becomes very intimate. — Nicolas Winding Refn

I don't let any personal views about religion cause me to want to take away something that's offering the patient comfort. I never want to take away something when I don't have anything better to offer him in a way. — Irvin D. Yalom

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

All my other movies have the same process. Same approach. Same amount of changes. Everything. Things being made up on the fly. Changing things around. Firing and recasting. Constantly, constantly, in chronological sequence, not really knowing how this is going to end up. That is the only dogmatic approach I take towards everything. — Nicolas Winding Refn

I love watching the superhero movies and I would love to make one. — Nicolas Winding Refn

One of the biggest challenges for people involved in interfaith dialogue is to break down the stereotypes of the "other" that exist within their own religious traditions and groups. Religious groups need to first acknowledge and confess their own role in fostering and contributing to injustice and conflict. (by Cilliers, Ch. 3, p. 49) — David R. Smock

Shutting your eyes to reality does not keep you in the dark, it makes you a monster. — Darnell Lamont Walker

Sin doesn't make us bad, sin makes us dead. The gospel doesn't make us better, the gospel makes us alive. — Louie Giglio

But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake. — Ira Glass

Only the ephemeral is of lasting value. — Eugene Ionesco

And to be fair, most documentaries are half an hour too long, anyway. Let's not kid ourselves. Most movies are an hour too long. I will say that the internet has changed everything in terms of distribution and because of iTunes and other outlets like that, length is no longer something you really think about, in my opinion. It's irrelevant. — Nicolas Winding Refn

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. — Nicolas Winding Refn

If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny. — Calvin Trillin

People very quickly define success due to the amount of money something makes. In the end, I think everyone is searching for that experience. That's why we continue to go to the movies and watch television. — Nicolas Winding Refn

There is a great deal more correctness of thought respecting manhood in bodily things than in moral things. For men's ideas of manhood shape themselves as the tower and spire of cathedrals do, that stand broad at the bottom, but grow tapering as they rise, and end, far up, in the finest lines, and in an evanishing point. Where they touch the ground they are most, and where they reach to the heaven they are least. — Henry Ward Beecher