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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

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
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 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 wasn’t a big fan of social anthropology. And, luckily, that created room for me to work in visual arts because I sort of ignored my requirements. I think I was attracted to social anthropology because I liked to travel and was always interested in far-off places.
DARREN ARONOFSKY

Art Fans 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.
DARREN ARONOFSKY

Choices Most Passion Regret Wrong
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 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’ve spent a life loving women and studying them as much as I can, or am allowed to.
DARREN ARONOFSKY

Loving Study Woman
I’ve tried to take a chance with every film I’ve done – I’ve never done it the easy way, and I think that’s because that’s what excites me, is making as big a mountain as I can in front of me, and just trying to mount it.
DARREN ARONOFSKY

Challenge Done Easy Front Trying
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.
DARREN ARONOFSKY

Actor Artistry Moment Sure Working
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 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
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
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
God can be found anywhere, and in fact, everywhere. And you don
DARREN ARONOFSKY

Anywhere Don Found God

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.

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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.

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