Quotes About Passion

Nicolas Winding Refn

I have always tended toward extremism: I'm Motorhead rather than REO Speedwagon.

My style's not for everyone - I'm an extremist.

Who can blind lover's eyes?

I'm a little bit of a fabric lunatic.

The reality of music itself, which is the fabric of life for me, is where most of my attention is.

Football has not just been a part of my life: It has been the fabric of my life.

I like Diaspora because it's audacious, it's driven by passion, and it's very, very hard to do. After all, who in their right mind would set as a goal taking on Facebook? That's sort of like deciding to build a better search engine - very expensive, with a high likelihood of failure.

It was a precondition to leaving Facebook that I wasn't going to start something that was just about chasing money.

I just love human emotion and faces.

I'm always singing and dancing and getting up in people's faces.

I don't put faces on a dartboard. I just love the game, and I think I play it very well.

People talk about going crazy in love, but no one knows what happens when one actually faces it.

Guys all want something beyond what they're being given - in every facet of life.

I grew up in a world where music was a way of life, and I'm part of a family that in some facet or another, every single one of us has continued to live in that world.

Even before I auditioned for 'X Factor' the second time, I was doing a lot of dance music.

If I don't get the goose-bump factor when I'm reading it than I can't do it.

Singing well has always been important to me, but the most important factor is the connection to the audience.

If it's funny or it's good, then yeah, I'll do it. Whether it's big-screen or whatever wouldn't be the deciding factor for me.

I have always believed in doing films which have strong scripts. Money is never the deciding factor for me and is not that important.

When you go into the studio, you have to know what you're going in there for. I went into the studio because I had a voice and I wanted to change things, and I don't necessarily mean my bank account. The money is almost a B factor, a side product.

Writing went from being a calling to being a job. Business ruined things. It became like making sausages in a sausage factory.

I love making documentaries. But I do like other factual entertainment as well, and I like doing the lighter stuff.

No, I don't think rock 'n' roll will ever fade.