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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

I don’t make films that are easy to market, unfortunately. I think that ‘Pi’ was the easiest one, because we had that symbol to stick up everywhere, so that was a good gimmick, and created a good mystery, and we didn’t have to do huge scale.
DARREN ARONOFSKY

Gimmicks Sticks Thinking
I think people are people and if their feelings are real and truthful, they can connect.
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People Real Thinking
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…
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People Thinking Trying
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
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
God can be found anywhere, and in fact, everywhere. And you don
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Anywhere Don Found God
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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Bars Giving Long
I’ve spent a life loving women and studying them as much as I can, or am allowed to.
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Loving Study Woman
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
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
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
Animators have to live life 24 times as long as we do – every 24 frames of a second.
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Chance Life Live Long Second
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
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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Cutting Expertise Geek

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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