Nicolas Winding Refn Quotes

I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess.

I like going crazy. And not just for art - I like extremes in general.

Anything worth doing is worth over-doing. Moderation is for cowards.

If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing.

I have a theatrical temperament. I'm not interested in the middle road - maybe because everyone's on it. Rationality, reasonableness bewilder me.

I like things that are unique and extreme.

I don't want to be made pacified or made comfortable. I like stuff that gets your adrenaline going.

People like casting me as these characters who definitely have an edge to them, but I don't really think 'bad boy' is something anyone can say about themselves without sounding stupid.

Why do we never expect dull people to be rascals?

No, I do not identify with the right wing.

It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion.

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature

I think my whole life has been one of sort of daring, and sort of sailing against the wind instead of just going with the wind.

I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, 'I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.'

A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted-in the air.

I never liked the middle ground-the most boring place in the world.

I like to take a shot with things. I like to take risks. I'm attracted to things that are different than the average run-of-the-mill stuff.

I suppose that the main drive is to find the edge of something and then throw myself over it.

Genius is insanity right up until it works.

Trouble can be a lot of fun. It's the straight and narrow that makes life tedious and boring.

If I have the chance to time travel, might as well go all out.

I like people too much or not at all.

I have created a life by stepping out of the box of people's limitations. I call it zigging when others are zagging.

I'm a bloody fun-seeker. Whatever the role is, I'll find a way to deliver the line that is confounding.

Heroics are not easily had for the young in our times. Perhaps that is why they go to such extremes to create their own dangers.