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 ARONOFSKYI think it’s my nature to try and make original content, and that’s what I’ve done, is just try and approach things in an original way, and do things differently.
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My god is narrative filmmaking.
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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.
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When I go to movies I generally want to be taken to another world.
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God can be found anywhere, and in fact, everywhere. And you don
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There was that whole Ecstasy culture. People were having a pretty good time in the ’90s.
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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.
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Angel Heart’ was one of my favorite films.
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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.
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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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The whole visual language of the movie is developed way before we get to set.
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I think religion is often very different from spirituality. Religion is often about rules and people trying to control our lives who are actually very unspiritual…
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I feel that so many sci-fi films and films in general have just become really dependent on and addicted to CGI, and that some of the big CGI films of the summer, you see these effects that look like crap.
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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 years ago, basically running on fumes today. There’s a lot of drama there.
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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.
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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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