Darren Aronofsky Quotes

Animators have to live life 24 times as long as we do - every 24 frames of a second.
As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch it.
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.
Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it's important. It's also interesting.
Comic books and graphic novels are a great medium. It's incredibly underused.
I couldn't sleep one night and I was sitting in my office and I realized that I was an independent filmmaker.
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.
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.
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.
I think video games and that stuff should be as violent as possible, but age-appropriate. It should be realistic. When it's not realistic you run into kids running around shooting people and not realizing the consequences.
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.
I was a TV junkie as a kid. I am the Sesame Street generation.
I'd like to do a lot of different stuff. I think it's important as a creative person to keep challenging yourself and keep doing new stuff. If you end up trying to repeat yourself it's death. It just becomes boring and takes the passion out of it. You gotta find stories and characters that you really want to hang out with.
I'm Godless. I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking.
I'm not a comic book guy at all.
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.
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.
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.
Right after I did 'The Fountain,' I wanted to go make a documentary or something that was less constructed - more natural. I was searching for a project, and sniffing around, 'The Wrestler' fit right in.
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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