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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.

Darren Aronofsky

There was that whole Ecstasy culture. People were having a pretty good time in the ’90s.
DARREN ARONOFSKY

Ecstasy Goodtime
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
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
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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Long Religious Thinking
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.
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Filmmaking Narrative Theme
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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Brain People Thinking
My god is narrative filmmaking.
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Inspirational Motivational Narrative
Comic books and graphic novels are a great medium. It’s incredibly underused.
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Book Comic Graphics Novel
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 think people are people and if their feelings are real and truthful, they can connect.
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People Real Thinking
I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to choose the road that I have the most passion on because then you can never really blame yourself for making the wrong choices. You can always say you’re following your passion.
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Choices Most Passion Regret Wrong
Angel Heart’ was one of my favorite films.
DARREN ARONOFSKY

Angel Film Heart
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.
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Character Different Technique
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 think I came to film-making through writing. I started to write, and people, teachers, responded to my writing.
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Teacher Thinking Writing
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

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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