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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.

Darren Aronofsky

My god is narrative filmmaking.
DARREN ARONOFSKY

Inspirational Motivational Narrative
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
I think I came to film-making through writing. I started to write, and people, teachers, responded to my writing.
DARREN ARONOFSKY

Teacher Thinking Writing
I’ve spent a life loving women and studying them as much as I can, or am allowed to.
DARREN ARONOFSKY

Loving Study Woman
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.
DARREN ARONOFSKY

Art Challenges Thinking
Also expressionistic filmmaking – making the audience feel like they were inside the characters’ heads. And so we create all these different types of techniques to put the audience there.
DARREN ARONOFSKY

Character Different Technique
I 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.
DARREN ARONOFSKY

Done Thinking Trying
God can be found anywhere, and in fact, everywhere. And you don
DARREN ARONOFSKY

Anywhere Don Found God
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
I couldn’t sleep one night and I was sitting in my office and I realized that I was an independent filmmaker.
DARREN ARONOFSKY

Inspiring Movie Sleep
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

Dad Kept Poetry Teacher Writing
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.
DARREN ARONOFSKY

Art Hip Hop Movie Music
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.
DARREN ARONOFSKY

Creating Growing Mean
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

Child Justice Mercy Parent Part
I’m Godless. I’ve had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking
DARREN ARONOFSKY

Actors Movie Narrative
For too long we have been taking, and the Earth has been giving. But that free-for-all, that all-you-can-eat buffet, it’s over. The salad bar is closed.
DARREN ARONOFSKY

Bars Giving Long

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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