"Drive" Director Refn on Violence

Nicolas Winding Refn doesn't shy away from violence, making waves and igniting debate as recently as last week with a bevy of second-half bloodletting. I've argued all along that I felt the film's violence was shocking, yet organic, and almost essential to the film's deadly quiet protagonist as his preferred method of expression, even foreplay. 
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Well would you believe it that Refn agrees? During an interview Monday with BBC One, Refn accidentally dropped the F-bomb when addressing the subject of violence in his films. 
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"Violence is very much like sexual build-up. It's all about what you put into it, because violence in itself in a movie is like an illusion."
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I think the much-talked-about, spectacularly eruptive elevator scene from "Drive" pretty much backs up this ideal. Driver (Gosling) kisses Irene (Mulligan) for an immeasurably long while, just before he bashes in the skull of a hitman trying to get the jump on he and his neighbor-widow whom he quite fancies. 
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I always felt while watching the film that Driver, with his long passages of soft-spoken vulnerability and daily ennui, uses violence (and speed) as a measure of self-expression and an almost romanticized view of killing.