I’m a huge fan of Nicolas Winding Refn. He has a sense of audacity to him. In fact, he has a great sense of light and color and music. He creates his own conventions.
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.
[Movies] literally turn him on, and if they don’t then he’s not interested in it. He sexualizes them, he fetishizes them. It doesn’t matter if it’s a pair of gloves or it’s the way something sits in the frame, it physically has to excite him or he’s bored. So he’s making these movies only for himself and so they feel personal. I’m just lucky that he and I, we share the same fantasy so we can take a film like Drive and it can be personal to both of us and have a very clear identity.