DRIVE // Nicolas Winding Refn

Drive (2011)

Director:  Nicolas Winding Refn

Cinematographer:  Newton Thomas Sigel

I give you five minutes when we get there. Anything happens in that five minutes and I’m yours. No matter what. Anything a minute on either side of that and you’re on your own. I don’t sit in while you’re running it down. I don’t carry a gun. I drive.

Drive | 2011 | dir. Nicolas Winding Refn

Drive (2011)

You’re Shannon’s buddy right? We met last year. You drove me and my brother back from Palm Springs. We hired another wheelman. I spent six months in jail. My brother, he got himself killed. I got this sweet job coming up.

Drive (2011).

Drive (2013) dir. Nicolas Winding Refn

“Ryan said that it made sense for Driver to talk as little as possible, that he would only verbalize when things mattered to him. By making him more silent, it also gave him more mystery. I like that silence, and the course of finding one’s way into a character who talks as little as possible in interesting. It also lets us play with the notion that the most silent character is the most dangerous.” Nicolas Winding Refn