Oscar Isaac on his character in Drive (via mroscarisaac)
You know when people either love you or hate you, it’s for the same reasons. And that’s when you know you have penetrated the audience and you have touched them and you have sparked something in them that flows through their system. Either they consume and take it with them and love or they hate it and it destroys them and they’re angry at me. And all I can say is, “thank you very much, they’ll be another one.” It’s what art is supposed to do. We live in a society where there’s a perfect scenario of art. There’s like a manual, if you do this, this and this, you’ll achieve that. But that’s the chief enemy of creativity, is being safe and having “good taste”. Art is the expression of emotions and it has to grab you in a poetic, beautiful and gentle way as well as a violent, aggressive and frustrating way.
Drive, 2011. (Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn)
You cannot live life without consequences. Whenever you do something, there will be a consequence. Just like violence [on film] only works if there’s a consequence. You can’t just be violent for violence’s sake, because it’s not emotionally engaging. - Nicolas Winding Refn
Can I talk to you? I won’t keep you long.
In the elevator scene is where Driver realizes that the circumstances have led to this—they’re in an elevator and he knows what he has to do now, and he will lose her forever, so he kisses her goodbye, because he knows he now has to go to the dark side in order to protect her. -Nicolas Winding Refn