All my films represent my own needs and wants.
I'd love to do a yakuza movie.
The best way to move forward - to bury the past. That doesn't mean you forget it.
I started buying films a couple of years ago. The first film-maker I began to obsessively collect was Andy Milligan. He was a New York frustrated artist.
Television is dead. And television will not be reborn. It will not come back.
People need to express themselves. The more you do that, the better a person you become.
People have called me everything. Every word in the dictionary I've been called at one point or another.
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.
The only thing that would really make my mother angry would be if I liked horror movies or violence or Ronald Reagan. And very violent films were a way for me to rebel. You have to rebel against your parents.
You cannot go through life without cause and effect.
I'm a huge John Hughes fan, and I grew up in the '80s, when his films came out. So, my introduction to what you'd call 'cinema love,' that illusion of love, was 'Sixteen Candles' and Molly Ringwald.
I've always worked a lot with silence in my films. It forces the audience to concentrate on what they're seeing, because silence is pure emotions. It has no logic; it goes straight to the heart.
Creativity is about a reaction.
Polarizing is the greatest achievement in any art form, even in cinema.
I thought it would be interesting to try something in Hollywood after a movie like 'Valhalla Rising,' which I was really pleased with, personally.
For 'Drive,' we needed the songs to dictate emotions and really bring you into the mind of The Driver; he's a unique and complicated guy, so the music itself had to be unique and complicated.
My writing has always been more out of the need to write a movie rather than me being a good writer.
I'm not a walking encyclopedia. I'm not one of those types that knows every single film ever made or can recite every dialog.
I love watching the superhero movies, and I would love to make one. But in a way, 'Drive' is probably the greatest superhero movie ever made.
With 'Only God Forgives,' what's great about that movie is it just freaked so many people out.
