20 Things You Didn't Know About Drive
18. Neither Nicolas Winding Refn Nor Writer Hossein Amini Can Drive
Despite so much of the movie being centered around cars, neither the movie's director Nicolas Winding Refn nor its screenwriter Hossein Amini actually drive cars in real life.
According to Refn, he hasn't even got a driver's license after failing his test eight times, and doesn't really have much interest in cars - hence the film's general lack of conventional car chases.
Producer Marc Platt called it "cosmic irony" that the movie's two foremost creative figureheads have never been behind the wheel of their own car - legally, at least - yet you'd never know it from the end product.