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The ’90s were a party, I mean definitely maybe not for the grunge movement, but people were partying harder in the ’90s than they were in the ’80s. The ’90s was Ecstasy, the ’80s was yuppies.

Darren Aronofsky

My god is narrative filmmaking.
DARREN ARONOFSKY

Inspirational Motivational Narrative
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
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
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
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
When I go to movies I generally want to be taken to another world.
DARREN ARONOFSKY

Taken Want World
Comic books and graphic novels are a great medium. It’s incredibly underused.
DARREN ARONOFSKY

Book Comic Graphics Novel
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
The whole visual language of the movie is developed way before we get to set.
DARREN ARONOFSKY

Language Months Way
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 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 think people are people and if their feelings are real and truthful, they can connect.
DARREN ARONOFSKY

People Real Thinking
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’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
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 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

The ’90s were a party, I mean definitely maybe not for the grunge movement, but people were partying harder in the ’90s than they were in the ’80s. The ’90s was Ecstasy, the ’80s was yuppies.

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The ’90s were a party, I mean definitely maybe not for the grunge movement, but people were partying harder in the ’90s than they were in the ’80s. The ’90s was Ecstasy, the ’80s was yuppies.

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