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 ARONOFSKYAt 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.
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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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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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I’ve spent a life loving women and studying them as much as I can, or am allowed to.
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The whole visual language of the movie is developed way before we get to set.
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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.
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There was that whole Ecstasy culture. People were having a pretty good time in the ’90s.
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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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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.
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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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I’m Godless. I’ve had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking
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God can be found anywhere, and in fact, everywhere. And you don
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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.
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I feel that so many sci-fi films and films in general have just become really dependent on and addicted to CGI, and that some of the big CGI films of the summer, you see these effects that look like crap.
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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.
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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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