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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 Aronofsky

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
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
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’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
I end up spending a tremendous amount of energy and time trying to get money to make these movies and it’s exhausting.
DARREN ARONOFSKY

Amount End Exhausting Trying
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 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
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
Comic books and graphic novels are a great medium. It’s incredibly underused.
DARREN ARONOFSKY

Book Comic Graphics Novel
God can be found anywhere, and in fact, everywhere. And you don
DARREN ARONOFSKY

Anywhere Don Found God
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.
DARREN ARONOFSKY

Amusement People 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…
DARREN ARONOFSKY

People Thinking Trying
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.
DARREN ARONOFSKY

Cutting Expertise Geek
I’m Godless. I’ve had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking
DARREN ARONOFSKY

Actors Movie Narrative
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 is what my mantra becomes, is the theme.
DARREN ARONOFSKY

Filmmaking Narrative Theme
I’ve spent a life loving women and studying them as much as I can, or am allowed to.
DARREN ARONOFSKY

Loving Study Woman

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