Darren Aronofsky Quotes - Page 2

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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.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Cameras, Film, Hunger

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• I was 12 or 13 years old. So I started to write poetry and fiction, even though I was really into biology because my dad was a science teacher. I kept writing all those years.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Teacher, Dad, Writing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 'Angel Heart' was one of my favorite films.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Heart, Angel, Film

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. December 18, 2008.

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• I'm not a comic book guy at all.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Book, Guy, Comic

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• I grew up in a family with two very strong women, my mother and my older sister, and they were big influences on my life. I've spent a life loving women, and studying them as much as I can, or am allowed to.

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  Mother, Strong Women, Two

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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.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Stars, Actors, Want

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• I have a team, the same team of filmmakers I worked with on 'Pi' and 'Requiem'. Which is my cameraman, and my composer, and my producer. We've all worked together for a number of films.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Team, Numbers, Together

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 21, 2006.

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• My god is narrative filmmaking.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Inspirational, Motivational, Narrative

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I spent about a year and a half doing technical post work on 'The Fountain'. Although I do like the process, I think my favorite part of filmmaking is the actors.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Thinking, Years, Actors

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. December 18, 2008.

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• When people think about the ark, they're always thinking about all the thousands of years of religious iconography of a ship with a bow and a deck, where Noah and the giraffes could walk around. In the actual written text it is basically described as a long, rectangular box.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Religious, Thinking, Long

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I remember the few times that happened to me in writing, where you basically start writing and you look at the clock and six hours have gone by and you're, like, "Whoa! What the hell just happened?" And that piece ends up in the final product even though the final product is three years away. It doesn't get rewritten. It came out the right way. But that's happened to me so few times in my life.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Writing, Remember, Hell

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Noah is the battle of justice versus mercy. In Genesis it says that Noah was righteous in his times. You think you sort of know what righteous means, you know, if you listen to a lot of Bob Marley. According to all the biblical scholars we talked to, righteousness is the proper balance of justice and mercy. If you think of that, as a parent, you know that if you have too much justice and you're too strict, you destroy a child. If you have too much mercy, as a parent, you destroy a child as well. A big part of this movie is Noah finding mercy for man.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Children, Mean, Biblical

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In the story, which is only a few chapters long in Genesis, Noah never even speaks until after the flood - but when you have Russell Crowe, you're going to make him speak.

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  Long, Speak, Genesis

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've been joking that if Madonna taught us anything, you've got to reinvent yourself. I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and challenge yourself and take chances. I've tried to take a chance with every film I've done - I've never done it the easy way, and I think that's because that's what excites me, is making as big a mountain as I can in front of me, and just trying to mount it.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Art, Thinking, Challenges

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I was always writing about the connection between man and nature. I grew up in a neighborhood that was right on the beach, but the beach was not like a beach you would imagine - there was a lot of pollution. And the most magical thing to me as a kid was sea glass, so I wrote about that a lot.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Beach, Writing, Kids

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Noah was this sort of patron saint in my life. When I finished Pi and I started to think about what was next, I was like, "Wow, it's interesting that no one has done a film of one of the greatest stories ever told." Even if you're not a Jew, a Muslim, or a Christian, you likely have a flood story in your culture.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Christian, Thinking, Interesting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Artist and illustrator R. Crumb did a whole illustration of Genesis. And he didn't go away from the text; he was totally truthful. Reading through that, I was like, "Oh, wow, it's a comic-book version of the Bible." There's a lot of heavy-duty stuff that goes on that doesn't make it into Sunday school.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Reading, School, Sunday

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Unfortunately, when you're working in film, it's this huge machine, and you've got to get everyone right there, so you get kind of locked into things. I'm not sure where the artistry in film making is. It's usually that moment when you're on set and you're working with the actors. That's the time to play around, the moment of theater. And then you can shape things. But a lot of it is just managing stuff. It's upsetting because you get away from the core.

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  Upset, Kind, Film

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think I came to film-making through writing. I started to write, and people, teachers, responded to my writing.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Teacher, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think there's something in collaboration - the fact that you can sit there and bounce ideas off of someone. It definitely matters who the person is, because certain people... The act of collaboration, where you can talk to someone, hang out, get ideas going, there is something in that. That's similar between everyone. But I think every individual collaborator is different, because they have different brains and emotions and ways of working, so it changes. Definitely.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Thinking, People, Brain

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• In seventh grade I had a magical teacher, her name was Mrs. Fried. She wore only pink, she drove a pink Mustang, and she was half out of her head. But very inspiring. And one day she said, "Take out a paper and pen and write something about peace." For some reason I wrote a poem on Noah - I don't know why I chose Noah - and it turned out it was for a contest for the UN. I ended up winning and reading the poem in front of the UN. I remember Mrs. Fried telling me, "When you write your first book, dedicate it to me." That was like, "Whoa."

  Darren Aronofsky

  Teacher, Reading, Book

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The '90s were a party, I mean definitely maybe not for the grunge movement, but people were partying harder in the '90s than they were in the '80s. The '90s was Ecstasy, the '80s was yuppies. There was that whole Ecstasy culture. People were having a pretty good time in the '90s.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Party, Mean, People

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• My hope is that I'm going to continue to make more and more challenging work that's going to come out more and more interesting. I don't know if that will always continue to happen, but every one of my films has definitely been a progression as far as complexity of narrative, character, and plot.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Character, Interesting, Challenges

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• CGI means, just to be clear, creating any type of image with a computer. Basically, starting off with nothing, or with images and manipulating them. The way we did it, everything was actual photographed images. A lot of that stuff was shot through a microscope of chemical reactions, yeast growing, lots of weird things, by Peter Parks. We put it into a computer and collaged it, manipulated it. Meaning we digitally shaped it to fit with other images. But there was no computer-generated imagery at all.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Mean, Creating, Growing

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 21, 2006.

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• It's not that much of a difference. Basically, your job is the same as a film director. It's a triangle between creativity, money, and time. But they don't really change. You're ultimately trying to get the most creativity and time with the money that you have.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Jobs, Creativity, Differences

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 21, 2006.

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