Darren Aronofsky Quotes

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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…
• 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…
• I couldn't sleep one night and I was sitting in my office and I realized that I was an independent filmmaker.
• As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch it.
• Animators have to live life 24 times as long as we do - every 24 frames of a second.
• Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it's important. It's also interesting.
• 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…
• I'm not a comic book guy at all.
• 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…
• 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…
• These wrestlers aren't organized. They have no union, no pension and no insurance. You meet wrestler after wrestler who sold out Madison Square Garden ten…
• 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…
• I'm Godless. And so I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking, which is -- ultimately what my God becomes, which…
• Comic books and graphic novels are a great medium. It's incredibly underused.
• 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…
• 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…
• I was a TV junkie as a kid. I am the Sesame Street generation.
• Right after I did 'The Fountain,' I wanted to go make a documentary or something that was less constructed - more natural. I was searching…
• 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…

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