Darren Aronofsky Quotes

• As filmmakers, we can show where a person’s mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch it.

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• Turning 30 was when my parents both got cancer and were fighting it and beat it, but their mortality started to get to me. Everything wasn’t as hunky-dory like it was.

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• Animators have to live life 24 times as long as we do – every 24 frames of a second.

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• When I go to movies I generally want to be taken to another world.

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• Now there is so much expertise and brainpower it’s hard to be at the cutting edge of what’s cool and not do something that’s totally geeky.

  Now there is so much expertise and brainpower it’s hard to be at the cutting edge of what’s cool and not do something that’s totally geeky.

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• If you ask any person on this crew what they think of Hugh Jackman they’ll admit they’ve never seen anything like it. I’ll give him an emotional note and he’ll hit it every time.

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  I’ve always wanted to introduce hip-hop filmmaking to film. There’s hip-hop art, dance, music, but there really isn’t hip-hop film. So I was trying to do that.

   

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• I’m not a comic book guy at all.

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• I’m Godless. I’ve had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking.

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• I was a TV junkie as a kid. I am the Sesame Street generation.

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• I only want to work with actors that really get it and make it work. I didn’t want it to be a star-driven thing anymore.

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• I hope that Requiem is better than Pi. I hope that Pi is better than my student films, and I’m hoping that I’m getting better as I get older.

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• I couldn’t sleep one night and I was sitting in my office and I realized that I was an independent filmmaker.

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• Comic books and graphic novels are a great medium. It’s incredibly underused.

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• Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it’s important. It’s also interesting.

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• At the end of Requiem all I wanted to do was get a DV camera and just do a small film. But then the hunger comes back.

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• I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to choose the road that I have the most passion on because then you can never really blame yourself for making the wrong choices. You can always say you’re following your passion.

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• To me, watching a movie is like going to an amusement park. My worst fear is making a film that people don’t think is a good ride.

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• There’s always been a lot of pressure and tension on the line. If ‘Pi’ didn’t work out, I have no idea what my career would be. I don’t think I would have gotten another shot at it. If ‘Requiem for a Dream’ didn’t work out, they would have called me a ‘one-hit wonder with a sophomore slump’.

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• I had some big ups and downs when I was in my 20s and the one thing I learned was, no matter how low it gets, something good will come along – something always comes out of that dark period.

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Darren Aronofsky (24)

Birth:	12th February, 1969
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Film Director, Producer, Screenwriter

About

Darren Aronofsky was born in Brooklyn, New York City. He is an American film director, screenwriter and film producer. He attended Harvard University, where he studied film and social anthropology, and the American Film Institute where he studied directing. He won several film awards after completing his senior thesis film, Supermarket Sweep, which went on to become a National Student Academy Award finalist. He won the Directing Award at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival and an Independent Spirit Award for best first screenplay. In 2010 he was an executive producer on The Fighter and his fifth feature film, the psychological horror film Black Swan, received further critical acclaim and many accolades, being nominated for five Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director and winning Best Actress for Natalie Portman's performance in the film.

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