Nicolas Winding Refn Quotes

I think 'The Thing' is so good because it's not just a scary movie. It's also social commentary, which works on multiple levels, which is something I really respond to.

I could come up with 50 stories that I am thinking about.

The first horror film I remember seeing in the theatre was Halloween and from the first scene when the kid puts on the mask and it is his POV, I was hooked.

I've watched 'Ringu' probably three or four times before writing the first draft of 'The Ring.' And then I'd seen 'Ringu 2' I think once.

When I wrote 'Hatchet,' I knew that I was not re-inventing the wheel. That was never my intention. My goal was to make an '80s-style slasher flick that actually holds up. Basically, I wanted to make the movie that I wanted to see and pay no mind to current trends or conventions.

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

I joke and I say, 'I need to go back to make a supernatural horror film just to so that I can make a movie that's grounded again.'

I want to do horror and action, and I'm only being slightly facetious.

I would love to make a horror picture!

I love horror. It's funny, because 'The Invitation' never struck me as horror, but it's definitely that type of thriller.

Just being out in the world gives me ideas.

I really liked the script of 'Alone.' I thought there were a lot unexpected things in the film, which I would want to watch as a viewer. I did not think like I was doing a horror film; I did not think in terms of genre. I decided on the basis of the script.

I do like horror films, but I wouldn't ever be interested in putting a horror on stage - blood doesn't equal horror.

Coming up with a good idea, with an insight into the way the world works that is really new and that you really believe in, is a deeply satisfying experience.

I have a little brown cocoon of an idea that may possibly expand into a magnificent moth of fulfilment.

When in doubt, make a western.

A book is a souvenir of an idea.

If you find an idea without form, please let me know because I would love to take a picture of it.

If you don't have an idea, all you have is style.

The most powerful thing in the world is an idea.

Everything great that ever happened in this world happened first in somebody’s imagination.

I did so many comedies that we've had numerous discussions about horror of film and I've always been really hesitant to do so because the last thing I wanted to make was a horror movie.

Everything's a film idea if this is what you do.I've always been secretly confident that I'd never run out of ideas,because I've never had any. I just live my life, see things theway I do, and I'm just looking for a notion to hang it all on.

Creativity has a lot to do with the main idea. Inspiration is what comes when you are dealing with the idea. But inspiration won't invite what's not there to begin with.

Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.