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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

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

Creativity Differences Jobs
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.
DARREN ARONOFSKY

Drama Garden Insurance Running
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.
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Art Challenges Thinking
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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People Thinking Trying
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.
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Actors Thinking Years
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.
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Dad Kept Poetry Teacher Writing
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

Long Religious Thinking
I think people are people and, if their feelings are truthful, they can connect. It doesn’t matter if you’re an aging, 50-something wrestler at the end of his career, or an ambitious, 20-something ballet dancer.
DARREN ARONOFSKY

Careers People Thinking
I end up spending a tremendous amount of energy and time trying to get money to make these movies and it’s exhausting.
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Amount End Exhausting Trying
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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Creating Growing Mean
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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Goal Moment Upsetting
God can be found anywhere, and in fact, everywhere. And you don
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Anywhere Don Found God
I wasn’t a big fan of social anthropology. And, luckily, that created room for me to work in visual arts because I sort of ignored my requirements. I think I was attracted to social anthropology because I liked to travel and was always interested in far-off places.
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Art Fans Thinking
My god is narrative filmmaking.
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Inspirational Motivational Narrative
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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Inspiring Movie Sleep
I’m Godless. I’ve had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking
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Actors Movie Narrative

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