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.
DARREN ARONOFSKYI 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.
More Darren Aronofsky Quotes
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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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Animators have to live life 24 times as long as we do – every 24 frames of a second.
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My god is narrative filmmaking.
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Angel Heart’ was one of my favorite films.
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There was that whole Ecstasy culture. People were having a pretty good time in the ’90s.
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I think I came to film-making through writing. I started to write, and people, teachers, responded to my writing.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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Comic books and graphic novels are a great medium. It’s incredibly underused.
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I think there’s something in collaboration – the fact that you can sit there and bounce ideas off of someone. It definitely matters who the person is, because certain people… T
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I’m not sure where the artistry in film making is. It’s usually that moment when you’re on set and you’re working with the actors.
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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.
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